http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ How-To Geek Forums Topic: INstalling winxp to laptop en Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:55:54 +0000 http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/installing-winxp-to-laptop#post-35900 Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:19:46 +0000 whs 35900@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I assume your HP came with Vista. Before you do anything else, you should burn a Vista recovery disk from the recovery partition - just in case something happens and you need to reinstall Vista. If you need help with that, come back and ask.<br /> The installation of XP on a Vista machine is a somewhat more involved procedure. I have to defer to my friends for an answer because I am not an expert in that.<br /> You may want to specify whether you want to install XP only or XP next to Vista. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/installing-winxp-to-laptop#post-35897 Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:17:34 +0000 jd2066 35897@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>You probably need to burn a Windows XP disc with SATA drivers included. See <a href='http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows/resolving-setup-did-not-find-any-hard-disk-drives-during-windows-xp-installation/'>http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows/resolving-setup-did-not-find-any-hard-disk-drives-during-windows-xp-installation/</a> for how to do so. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/installing-winxp-to-laptop#post-35892 Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:11:03 +0000 renuraki 35892@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Hi<br /> I dont have the recovery disc for my HP pavillion DV8000, i have a winxp disc but it when i run xp setup it tells me it cant find the hard drive and set up stops.<br /> Of course the hard drive is in there but i cant move any further<br /> Can someone suggest a way i can reinstall winxp?<br /> Kind regards </p>