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Answer» i bought this dell laptop used and it came with windows vista basic...but i want windows xp. can this b done? if so..how?Find out if your hardware is COMPATIBLE. If so, purchase Windows XP. If your system runs with Vista then it will run with XP. You'll need to purchase an XP CD. Then format your hd. Then boot to the XP CD and install.may need SATA drivers. I've seen many of the newer laptops that came factory installed with Vista and have non-existent XP drivers...so it won't always work. Best bet is to check with Dell. If you enter your Service Tag # it will list all available drivers for that machine...if there are no XP drivers then you're outta luck.Quote from: patio on October 24, 2009, 07:39:07 AM I've seen many of the newer laptops that came factory installed with Vista and have non-existent XP drivers...so it won't always work. Best bet is to check with Dell. If you enter your Service Tag # it will list all available drivers for that machine...if there are no XP drivers then you're outta luck. Haven't run into those - but okay, now I know Quote from: patio on October 24, 2009, 07:39:07 AM I've seen many of the newer laptops that came factory installed with Vista and have non-existent XP drivers...so it won't always work. Best bet is to check with Dell. If you enter your Service Tag # it will list all available drivers for that machine...if there are no XP drivers then you're outta luck. This is why I wrote what I did before.http://cgi.ebay.com/New-Microsoft-OEM-Software-WIN-XP-PRO-MUI-SP3-OEM-CD-1P_W0QQitemZ130334740652QQcategoryZ88433QQcmdZViewItem?VER=single&POS=viewandbid&viewandbid=130334740652GoTTi, That eBay item is, IMO, overpriced. Here is a possible idea that would be a dark LEGAL solution. Go buy an old junk Dell that has the original COA and OEM disk of XP. Junk the old PC and install the XP on your new machine. I believe this is legal, but it is on the dark side. Be aware that, as Patio said, new Laptops have hardware that is not XP compatible. I did a rant on this awhile back. I suggest you borrow a Dell OEM XP from a friend and see if it works. You can buy a COA Product KEY for a Dell for much less that the Retail XP.Quote from: Geek-9pm on October 24, 2009, 04:06:04 PM Here is a possible idea that would be a dark legal solution. Go buy an old junk Dell that has the original COA and OEM disk of XP. Junk the old PC and install the XP on your new machine. I believe this is legal, but it is on the dark side. Not legal. The OEM XP is for the system with which it ships and that system alone.Quote from: Allan on October 25, 2009, 06:48:04 AM Not legal. The OEM XP is for the system with which it ships and that system alone. No. It's legal. There is nothing binding a particular copy of windows to any particular Computer, just so long as the number of installations does not exceed the number of licenses (MS MAKES no distinction over the particulars of the machines running them)Quote from: BC_Programmer on October 25, 2009, 09:27:45 AM No. It's legal. There is nothing binding a particular copy of windows to any particular Computer, just so long as the number of installations does not exceed the number of licenses (MS makes no distinction over the particulars of the machines running them) I tend to disagree - but I certainly wouldn't bet a lot of money one way or the other.All this is irrelevant if the OP does not take the time to find out if the machine has XP Drivers... This is especially critical on laptops for them to run properly...if at all.that first ebay link was for pro edition... home is usually $100 or less... http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=m38&_nkw=winxp+home+oem use that link and just buy a winxp oem from there, and your good. or goto your local Fry's or any computer store and ask them for a WinXP Home OEM

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i bought this dell laptop used and it came with windows vista basic...but i want windows xp. can this b done? if so..how?Find out if your hardware is COMPATIBLE. If so, purchase Windows XP.

If your system runs with Vista then it will run with XP. You'll need to purchase an XP CD. Then format your hd. Then boot to the XP CD and install.may need SATA drivers.
I've seen many of the newer laptops that came factory installed with Vista and have non-existent XP drivers...so it won't always work.
Best bet is to check with Dell.
If you enter your Service Tag # it will list all available drivers for that machine...if there are no XP drivers then you're outta luck.Quote from: patio on October 24, 2009, 07:39:07 AM

I've seen many of the newer laptops that came factory installed with Vista and have non-existent XP drivers...so it won't always work.
Best bet is to check with Dell.
If you enter your Service Tag # it will list all available drivers for that machine...if there are no XP drivers then you're outta luck.

Haven't run into those - but okay, now I know Quote from: patio on October 24, 2009, 07:39:07 AM

I've seen many of the newer laptops that came factory installed with Vista and have non-existent XP drivers...so it won't always work.
Best bet is to check with Dell.
If you enter your Service Tag # it will list all available drivers for that machine...if there are no XP drivers then you're outta luck.

This is why I wrote what I did before.http://cgi.ebay.com/New-Microsoft-OEM-Software-WIN-XP-PRO-MUI-SP3-OEM-CD-1P_W0QQitemZ130334740652QQcategoryZ88433QQcmdZViewItem?VER=single&POS=viewandbid&viewandbid=130334740652GoTTi,
That eBay item is, IMO, overpriced.

Here is a possible idea that would be a dark LEGAL solution.
Go buy an old junk Dell that has the original COA and OEM disk of XP.
Junk the old PC and install the XP on your new machine.
I believe this is legal, but it is on the dark side.

Be aware that, as Patio said, new Laptops have hardware that is not XP compatible. I did a rant on this awhile back. I suggest you borrow a Dell OEM XP from a friend and see if it works. You can buy a COA Product KEY for a Dell for much less that the Retail XP.Quote from: Geek-9pm on October 24, 2009, 04:06:04 PM

Here is a possible idea that would be a dark legal solution.
Go buy an old junk Dell that has the original COA and OEM disk of XP.
Junk the old PC and install the XP on your new machine.
I believe this is legal, but it is on the dark side.

Not legal. The OEM XP is for the system with which it ships and that system alone.Quote from: Allan on October 25, 2009, 06:48:04 AM

Not legal. The OEM XP is for the system with which it ships and that system alone.

No. It's legal. There is nothing binding a particular copy of windows to any particular Computer, just so long as the number of installations does not exceed the number of licenses (MS MAKES no distinction over the particulars of the machines running them)Quote from: BC_Programmer on October 25, 2009, 09:27:45 AM

No. It's legal. There is nothing binding a particular copy of windows to any particular Computer, just so long as the number of installations does not exceed the number of licenses (MS makes no distinction over the particulars of the machines running them)

I tend to disagree - but I certainly wouldn't bet a lot of money one way or the other.All this is irrelevant if the OP does not take the time to find out if the machine has XP Drivers...
This is especially critical on laptops for them to run properly...if at all.that first ebay link was for pro edition...

home is usually $100 or less...

http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=m38&_nkw=winxp+home+oem

use that link and just buy a winxp oem from there, and your good. or goto your local Fry's or any computer store and ask them for a WinXP Home OEM

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