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Gary

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30th Jun 11 at 16:05

Trying to downgrade a laptop from 7 to XP (dosent agree with it)

Wont work

Bang XP disk in. Says theres something wrong with the PC. try start XP CD from within windows, says its restricted.

WTF? gay

Brett

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30th Jun 11 at 16:07

Are you booting to the XP CD then trying to format the drive?

Gary

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30th Jun 11 at 16:08

Wont even get that far

Brett

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30th Jun 11 at 16:10

So when the XP disc is in the machine it won't even boot? I admit i've not done such a downgrade before with Win7, but I'd assume as long as your machine is set to boot from CD in the bios, then you'd just have the disc in on boot, then do the press any key when it says, then carry on as you would..

Gary

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30th Jun 11 at 16:11

fired it up. told to boot from CD. currently on the blue windows setup screen loadinf files.

Will post up what it says when it fails again

Gary

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30th Jun 11 at 16:11

Blue screen of death!!

Dom

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30th Jun 11 at 16:12

fdisk the HDD, use XP disc.

Edit - BSOD sounds a bit suspect. I'd format the drive first and see where you get with XP, the BSOD might be down to a dodgy bootrecord etc

[Edited on 30-06-2011 by Dom]

Leighton

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30th Jun 11 at 16:13

Is the laptop a 64 bit processor? is XP a 64 bit version?

Gary

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30th Jun 11 at 16:14

32 and 32 i think.

Brett

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30th Jun 11 at 16:16

quote:
Originally posted by Dom
the BSOD might be down to a dodgy bootrecord etc

Yeah, I've had that problem in the past.

Gary

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30th Jun 11 at 16:16

Boots up t 7 normally though

Gary

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30th Jun 11 at 16:17

Has 64bit & on it. Must be capable of 64bit then

Dom

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30th Jun 11 at 16:19

I'd still nuke the drive first with fdisk and then install XP. I'd also check that XP doesn't need storage drivers etc as that can cause problems (had it with an old Athlon system that need raid drivers loaded otherwise it'd BSOD).

Gary

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30th Jun 11 at 16:21

It was run on shitty vista before so should be ok ok XP.

All this for a pissing 3 Dongle

Dom

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30th Jun 11 at 16:23

quote:
Originally posted by Gary
It was run on shitty vista before so should be ok ok XP.

All this for a pissing 3 Dongle

No Win7 drivers for the dongle? Usually there are work arounds for cack devices like that.

Brett

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30th Jun 11 at 16:27

OMG Gary, you're not formatting and installing XP for the sake of a dongle, surely?

Gary

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30th Jun 11 at 16:28

quote:
Originally posted by loafofbrett
OMG Gary, you're not formatting and installing XP for the sake of a dongle, surely?

Not my laptop. Missus needs it.

Gary

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30th Jun 11 at 16:29

quote:
Originally posted by Dom

quote:
Originally posted by Gary
It was run on shitty vista before so should be ok ok XP.

All this for a pissing 3 Dongle

No Win7 drivers for the dongle? Usually there are work arounds for cack devices like that.

Worked then didnt. Gay 3

Dom

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30th Jun 11 at 16:32

quote:
Originally posted by Gary

quote:
Originally posted by Dom

quote:
Originally posted by Gary
It was run on shitty vista before so should be ok ok XP.

All this for a pissing 3 Dongle

No Win7 drivers for the dongle? Usually there are work arounds for cack devices like that.

Worked then didnt. Gay 3

Guessing you've done the usally remove, clean reg/temp and drivers directories, reinstall? Tried other ports? No updated drivers about?

If it worked then i would fuck off installing XP on it, as you could have similar problems. I'd be googling the dongle and see if there are any solutions.

Gary

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30th Jun 11 at 16:34

Dug a newer dongle out. gonna try that first

Brett

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30th Jun 11 at 16:34