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HOW TO KILL VISTA ???

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by some1heartbeat

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HI THERE AND THANKS FOR YOUR HELP

I GOT THIS LAPTOP " HP" PAVILION 6799ee"
2.5 GHZ, WIDE SCREEN 15.4" 2 GB DDR2 , WITH 250 GB HD. WHICH I AM HAPPY WITH IT AS IT TOKE ME A TIME TO CHOSE IT , ASI FOUND THAT THIS ONE CAN BE OPERATED FOR 32 BIT , AS WILL IT WILL BE OPERATED FOR 64 BIT, WHICH I HAVE PLAN'S FOR FUTURE , AS I KNOW IT WILL TURN TO 64 BIT, ANYWAY.
THE ONLY PROBLEM I HAD IS THAT IT COME'S WITH WINDOWS VISTA HOME EDITION , WHICH I INSTALLED ON IT VISTA ULTIMATE EDITION, BUT I STELL HAVE THIS PROBLEM WITH SOFTWARE WHCH CANT RUN ON IT , SO I PLANNED TO INSTALL WINDOWS XP PRO , BUT COULDNT DO THAT BECUSE WINDOWS VISTA DID NOT ALLOW ME TO DO SO, THERFOR I FORMATTED THE HARD DISK, AND NOW I CANT INSTALL ANYTHING , EVEN RECOVERY THE VISTA EDITION CANT BE DONE , ALSO I GOT LINUX OS LIKE LINDOWS , UBUNTU BUT IT WILL NOT BE INSTALLED , SO ANYONE GOT ANY IDEIA ???
P.S: I GOT THE DRIVER FOR MY LAPTOP FOR WINDOWS XP, AND VISTABOOTPRO.
PLEASE DONT STAND AND TRY TO HELP ME.

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by cmiller5400

[i]PLEASE DONT STAND AND TRY TO HELP ME.[/i]
I won't stand while I help you. :)

Since it looks like you have trashed the disk, run DBAN on it to make sure that all traces of Visa are gone. http://dban.sourceforge.net Do make sure that you have a recovery DVD before you do this because it will trash the recovery partition on the laptop. Also, you probably will need to download the SATA drivers for the laptop and put them on a floppy disk so that when you first start the XP install, you can hit F6 to load the drivers.

by georrick

Just a thought, that machine may not have a floppy drive. Some machines won't take sata drivers from usb floppy drives well either. When I'm in your position I usally slipstream the sata drivers into a xp disk using nlite. Get it here: http://www.nliteos.com/download.html

Hope this helps, good luck.

by some1heartbeat

I HADE TRYED ALL THE ABOUVE BUT WITHOUT ANY RESULET, ANY WAY I GOT A NEW HARD DISK, I REPLACED WITH THE ORIGINAL ONE , AFTER THAT I COULDN'T INSTALL WINDOWS XP ALSO , THEREFOR I INSTALLED VISTA WHICH WAS EASY ???!!!
AND NOW I WOULD TRY TO INSTALL WINDOWS XP THEN I WILL SEE HOW I CAN REMOVE VISTA FOREVER .

ANYWAY , I WOULD LIKE TO THANK WHO TRY TO GIVE ME HIS IDEA FOR MY PROBLEM, AND WISH YOU LUCK.

by leenader

I had the exact same problem. I spent SIX HOURS online with their tech support only to find out that I had to -purchase- a specific XP cd from Hewlett Packard.

The standard ones won't work. You gotta buy Windows (the -media-) from HP for the specific laptop you own. They quoted me something like $35 U.S.

I promptly returned the machine and bought a Dell (which I formatted Vista away and dual booted XP / Xubuntu). Wound up being cheaper for the power too.

by elijah_look

I don't know if you have got your answer to your frustration but to solve this problem you could just go to the CMOS setup and disable SATA and everything will be fine. But as for the impact of disabling it. I haven't find out. Maybe someone could explain.

by forum surfer

Xp doesn't recognize the newer (last year or so) internal sata controllers on laptops by default. You have to load them via a usb floppy or flash drive when windows prompts you to press "whatver" key to load aditional raid drivers. Sounds like that's your issue to me, seen it alot of time with people trying to downgrade to Xp.

by some1heartbeat

Hi everyone ,
after long strugleing i could manage to do it , with a help from the internet, i found a helpfull website which was in arabic , therefor i couldnot post it here , but any way i would like to share my information with others as long as i can,
go to this link and you will get all the information you would like and its great
BUT make sure that you do all the step's on another pc that dose not have VISTA or you will not get anything working , JUST DO THE STEPS ON WINDOWS XP AND YOU WILL GOT IT .
AND NOW I WILL TRY TO DO THE SAME PROJECT FOR WINDOWS 2000 PRO. I WILL TELL YOU IF I DO IT

NOTE THAT I AM WORKING NOW ON WINDOWS XP FROM MY LAPTOP , BUT ONLY ONE PROBLEM THAT I AM FACING WITH THE DRIVER OF THE CPU. AND IF THERE IS A WAY THAT I CAN SHOW YOU A PICTURE OF MY NEW INSTALLATION OF WINDOWS XP , I WILL TRY TO .
JUST GO TO THIS LINK
http://nhatnguyen.info/?p=18
or try this link which have a simple and clear information
http://www.lancelhoff.com/2008/03/13/how-to-install-windows-xp-on-a-hp-dv6500-series-laptop/
AND WISH YOU LUCK

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