How To Add XP to a Vista machine

Dark Drakan · 01-04-2008, 09:14 PM

CVG have recently had an article put on there by Phil Wand, showing people a better way of putting Windows XP on your new Vista PC without reformatting.

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Originally Posted by Phil Wand

Bugged by the fact you've upgraded to Vista, and have found that the software you've got no longer works or behaves erratically?

Yeah, me too. While you could get annoyed at the fact publishers are charging people money for upgrades and patches you wouldn't have needed had you stuck with XP, the best thing to do is stick with Vista and install XP. Get it right and you'll be hopping happily between the two Windows without a care in the world.

The first thing you need to do is work out how much room you need, and that depends on what you're planning to do with it. On its own, XP eats about 1.5GB of your hard drive, so the minimum space you need is 2GB - enough for the operating system, plus a small amount of data.

If you're looking to play all the games you put in the loft because they refused to work under Vista, as a rule of thumb you should add 2GB for every CD-based title and 10GB for those on DVD.

How to... Add XP to a Vista machine Guide - CVG.com

Albion Knight · 01-04-2008, 09:52 PM

On thing to be careful of is making sure you can get all the drivers for XP 90+% chance you'll have it but the last 2% could be a bear.

projectego · 01-04-2008, 10:16 PM

Nice find, mate. It's just a shame I don't have my old Windows XP installation CD-Rom anymore. Then again, I guess I'm just lucky that I haven't run into any nasty Windows Vista software incompatibility issues on my notebook - everything I've installed so far seems to run smooth and without any problems.

Zingo · 01-05-2008, 12:10 AM

I dont get it O_o

How do people make vista go crazy? I've had 2 errors so far, but those were not Vista-related... yeesh

Aristodemus · 08-01-2008, 11:20 AM

People don't make Vista go crazy, Vista makes THEM go crazy! Do you really enjoy being asked 8 times to open a program you purposely clicked on?

Angel · 08-01-2008, 05:31 PM

The only issue I have ever had with Vista is that it messes with my job - the patches to make my peripherals compatible with Vista do not work and partitioning didn't work...absolute nuisance to try and sort out, really, so I'm now stuck with an OCR scanner I cannot use and a pile of work I cannot complete