[poly5]

VISTA Acer Laptop (My Boss's) - Replace it with XP - Help Fast

I need your help on this one.

My boss recently bought an ACER Aspire 5535 laptop with pre installed vista home premium.
He wants me to delete vista and install xp, cause he is used to xp os, from his previous laptop

I have used the ee-recovery management and made a a backup dvd of the os, as requested by the system.


It has 250 gb sata hd in 2 partitions:
c: 80 gb
d: 110 gb (that is odd, it is more than 250, now that i think about it)
No Floppy

Actions Taken:

1 . I want to format c and install win xp.
2.I have downloaded all drivers from acer.
3. i changed the boot sequence at bios, so dvd rom boots first.

PROBLEM:
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When i enter the win xp cd to install, the process starts, and just before i get to the screen where I can choose to repair or to forma, i get a blue screen and a msg:

"A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer

if this is the first time you see this screen.....

check for viruses......

Technical information:
**STOP: 0X00000FB..........."

I understand that VISTA doesnt let me to install a new os. When i take the xp installation cd out,
vista loads as usual

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1 Am i doing something wrong?
The installation xp cd is working, cause i ve used it before on desktops.
Moreover, i used another xp installtion cd with sata+raid support but gor the same screen.

2. i have downloaded from acer all drivers for the laptop for win xp. one of them was

SATA AHCI Driver. How do i use this one? should i somehow incorporate it to the xp installation cd?
Am i gonna be asked for this specific driver?

3. am i gonna lose the second partition? this is the first time that i am replacing vista with xp without a floppy disk

If someone could give me step by step info on how to do the new install, it would be great

thanks guys

[huggie54]

hiya buddy read this see if any good.
Downgrade Without Reformatting
Obviously, the most convenient way to downgrade is to do so without reformatting. In order to do that, you need to have a real retail CD of Windows XP. If all you have is a recovery disk that came with your computer, you’re not going to be able to do it this way. You will need to reformat.

To downgrade, use the following as a guide:

Do a full backup of your current, Vista system. If something happens, you can always revert to the backup.
Boot your computer off the Windows XP disc. Just pop the CD into the CD-ROM and reboot. If, for some reason, your computer boots without looking for the CD drive, you need to go into your system BIOS and change the boot order so that it checks for the CD drive during the boot process.
When the computer asks to press the space bar to boot from the CD, do so.
When Windows XP Setup starts up, press “R” to enter the recovery.
If it asks you to choose a Windows installation, press a number and hit Enter. The likely number will be 1.
If you get asked for an Administrator password, enter when asked. If you do not know it, you will need to abort and go back into Windows Vista to get your password.
At the command prompt, we’re going to use the “fixboot” command. We’ll use the following commands in sequence to prep for XP:
fixboot
fixmbr
cd \
ren windows winvista
exit

When done, reboot the machine again using your Windows XP CD. This time, you can proceed normally with a normal XP setup.
When setup is complete, what you’re going to have is a separate installation of Windows XP. You’re still going to need to re-install your applications and manually move all your data. You will see Vista’s documents on the hard drive. Just move them over to the location you want them to be.

As you can see, there is still work involved with this method. There is no way to downgrade to XP and not have to re-install your applications. The only way to pull that off is if you originally upgraded from XP and you had Windows save a restore point before upgrading to Vista. In that instance, you have something to fall back to.

[poly5]

thanks for this,

my problem is when i insert the XP installation CD, it never gets to the screen where i can choose to repair or to format. i get a blue screen with this msg:


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When i enter the win xp cd to install, the process starts, and just before i get to the screen where I can choose to repair or to forma, i get a blue screen and a msg:

"A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer

if this is the first time you see this screen.....

check for viruses......

Technical information:
**STOP: 0X00000FB..........."

I understand that VISTA doesnt let me to install a new os. When i take the xp installation cd out,
vista loads as usual

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why ma i getting this msg when i insert the XP installation disk?
How can i resolve this?