Improve this question. Grishanko Grishanko 5 5 silver badges 14 14 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. This extracts the factory-installed product key. It will likely not match the product key on the sticker.
Save or write down the product key. Apply your disk image to the machine. Copy the dell. Boot and type the product key that you wrote down earlier when prompted. For machines with Windows Vista preinstalled that you want to downgrade to Windows XP: Boot into Windows Vista and do all of the first-run setup steps. Start Control Panel System; click the "Change product key" link at the bottom of the page.
Try to find an option to activate via telephone. Call the number that is provided, and tell the operator that you want to downgrade. You'll have to provide the product key from the sticker. The operator will provide you with a new product key or will reset the one on the sticker so that it works with XP. If compatibility is not an issue for you, then you may want to consider making the switch. We will continue to offer this service after June 18 for as long as Microsoft supports the program.
We cannot ship XP systems outside of the downgrade program after June Check out www. Laptop running quite satisfactorily in Vista last night was shut down at about midnight. Booted up this evening and it came up in XP. I don't believe for one minute that we didnt do something, but I have no idea what. Its the wifes laptop, she hasnt installed anything, wouldnt know how and I dont give her those permissions, but that doesnt mean that she didnt select something on boot up.
It has brought forward network connections, but has lost email profiles and files etc. Any ideas what happenned and how I can get back to Vista?? Maybe she just hit the wrong button during startup.
Posted by: Nish Rana 10 Sep Posted by: haseeb 11 Sep Posted by: sbrobbs 05 Oct Hi, I bought a second hand Alienware Aurora M laptop with vista home premium already on it. Wanted to install xp pro on a new gb hardrive. Before doing this contacted alienware support they said I need to change some bios settings but would not tell me what as they did not support second hand systems.
Posted by: sbrobbs 09 Oct Hi ED, Did try it it seemed to install fine until I came to update the drivers. I've never seen this before. I also tried to run a diagnostic program to tell me what was on my system but all it did was open a black window for a split second and then nothing but this worked fine on my desktop. Posted by: Raj 18 Oct Posted by: Barry 02 Dec I could not get XP to boot up and making that one change fixed my problem.
You da man! Posted by: Cat Cooter 11 Feb I havce Vista on a Dell inspiron and hate it. Nothing but issues. I have all my music stored on an external seagate drivce and can unplug it but will it still work right?
We can also copy everything off my computer and save it to a harddrive to reinstall, pictures etc. Will this work? FInal problem. I have a Seagate 1.
It was working fine. I downloaded many anime full series on it and used it for back up then it quit doing the back ups. Next it said there was new software. After we installed the new software it totally screwed up my computer. It took my husband hours to get it working again, but the Seagate cannot be used. I think we need drivers? Is it possible to fix this or am I just screwed, and will trying to downgrade to xp make things worse?
I'm most concerned at this point about getting my big external running again. It's tricky even for tech savvy folks. At this point, I would check the Seagate website to get the latest Vista drivers for your device. Posted by: Garry 12 Apr Posted by: Ryan 20 Apr I'm trying to downgrade upgrade a dell from vista home basic to xp pro.
Replies Thanks for you reply, Actually its just a regular Windows XP cd bought from a store. Have you tried both CD drives? I would be willing to bet either your CD or CD drive is faulty. I'm guessing this is a full retail version and not a CD like from another computer. Plopo 2 Bronze. GioAguilar 4 Germanium. Also make sure you are using the top optical drive on your computer if you have two optical drives and when you press any key after the message should not be a problem.
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