Dilemma –
My daughter is shopping for her first laptop for college use. Of course, I have my favs, and she’ll listen. But, we can’t find much of anything in our area that isn’t pre-loaded with Vista.
She wants XP, as do I. I’ve upgraded many desktop systems before, but never downgraded, and never messed with a new laptop.
We have the Win O/S for an HP laptop already (the screen was broken beyond repair by a pet, rendering it only good for file storage).
I’d rather ask what is probably a stupid question than to forge ahead and mess things up.
-If she buys a new HP laptop, can the WinXP installation disk from the old laptop be used to downgrade? Not concerned at all with the bells-n-whistles (in other words – extra software hitchhikers that come loaded on new systems).
-If not, what should be done?
Again, not a tekkie novice, but admittedly new to both laptop tweaking and downgrading O/S.
(No flaming please – I’m admitting a weak area here, not looking for someone to point out the obvious, that I need more laptop experience.)
Thanks in advance for opinions/advice.
