downgrading to XP

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mac16m83

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well i have been searching through alot of web pages, and come up empty handed. i have Vista and i want to down grade to xp. The computer is an acer aspire 5100 laptop. i have a cd to install windows xp from. my main concern is getting started. i went into bios and changed the boot order so to use the cdrom first. and everything goes good from there, then it shows the different partitions, which one do i install it on?

Unpartitioned space
D; Partition 3 [NTFS]
C; Partition 1 (acer) [NTFS]
E; Partition 2 (DATA) [NTFS]

I have tried deleting D and instaling there, but when it gets done it is like it just starts over and goes back to boot from cd, anybody know what i am doing wrong?
Should i be afraid of deleting the wrong one that has my drivers on it?

Thanks for your time,
Mike
 
You need to pay close attention to the size of the drives.

If you had Vista installed, then there will be a 200MB partition (approx.),
an Acer Recovery partition about 5Gigs (approx.) and the largest partition where Vista was installed.

The largest partition will be where you want to install.
 
mac16m83 said:
Hey thanks for the help man, do i need to delete all of the partitions? what will this do?
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I would not delete any of the other partitions except the 200Mb one.

Keep the Acer Recovery partition in case you want Vista back.
(may or may not work anyway)
 
i would keep the DATA partition, thats the recovery partition like bodag said if you want to restore it back to vista, only thing is i had to download a cd that actually would read from the back up partition to initiate the restore.
 
JlCollins005 said:
i would keep the DATA partition, thats the recovery partition like bodag said if you want to restore it back to vista, only thing is i had to download a cd that actually would read from the back up partition to initiate the restore.
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I've ran into this also. After switching to a different OS, even though the recovery partition was intact, I was unable to boot from it. :(
 
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