Hello, thus it is very heavily the drivers too gotten, because HP no drivers for XP give raus separate only for Vista! You know certainly like your computer equipped are, then you can go to drivers nevertheless on a side and look for the correct drivers!
What for drivers? Diagram maps driver, sound maps driver, wireless landriver (if you have), to chip driver, printer driver (if you have), scanners driver (if you have) and I do not believe more need you for the beginning!
Yes and with this search I know you badly a helping, because am from Germany and know not a great many English driver sides!
Maybe you can try to install Windows XP without extra drivers and hope, that XP will recognize most hardware on its own. But you might need a special program like "Partition Magic" to repartition your drive that you can also install XP.
Well I called Microsoft Support and they said that the drivers are essential.
They said that I have to get the drivers to install XP from HP and that HP should be able to provide me with them.
They also said that once those drivers are installed that I then have to do a clean install of XP, which wipes out everything else on the hard drive, and then, during the install of XP, I have to create 2 partitions.
Once that is complete then I have to reboot and then install Vista into one of those partitions.
So, the sticking point here is trying to get the necessary drivers from HP. A lot of people are saying that HP does not have these drivers and/or will not provide them - Microsoft says different. Microsoft says that HP DOES have the drivers and that by all rights they Should provide them. Microsoft also said that if HP denies or refuses this that they will call them and assist me in getting them.
I don't understand why there is all of this "Wrangling" about this issue with HP and just go ahead and do what Microsoft says that they Should do.
My only comfort in this, at this time, is that Microsoft says that they will have HP give me what I need.
As Luke said, with that kind of software you should be able to change the partitions WITHOUT deleting and reinstalling windows. But, thats not a MS program so they probably don't know it
You should first try it like this (make a backup of all your files). If that doesnt work, you can delete everything and try the microsoft program.
The HP website doesn't habe XP drivers, but if you know which parts are built in (graphic adapter, sound card etc...) you might get them from the manufacturers. But you CAN install Windows XP without those special drivers, if Windows cannot find a matching driver, it just uses an own "standard version" with less functionality.
well when i got my win vista ultimate, i reinstalled all my 2 systems to be on the safe side. Just like Luke said, the only thing you have to do, is to know what hardware u got. Write down the hardwares names and just download the drivers from the manufacture´s sites. But the most of your hardware should be supported by xp.
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