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Milambar · 17-04-2009, 11:57

Agreed. I tried to downgrade Vista Home Premium on this (made the recovery dvd's first). Wiped the hdd, inserted the cd, and it couldn't find any hdd's. I was very WTF??? for a while until I realised they were SATA and RAID, and XP didn't have the drivers built in. Spent over 2 days hunting for drivers that worked, finally contacted Compaq.

After explaining the situation to them, they told me "It is not possible to install XP on that machine as there are no XP hard disk drivers for it."

I ended up putting Vista back on.

In summary: Be aware that it might not actually be possible to put XP on it, if they have used hardware that doesn't have any XP drivers, especially relating to the hard disk.

17-04-2009, 11:57	#23
Milambar Inactive Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 954	Re: Downgrading Windows OS Agreed. I tried to downgrade Vista Home Premium on this (made the recovery dvd's first). Wiped the hdd, inserted the cd, and it couldn't find any hdd's. I was very WTF??? for a while until I realised they were SATA and RAID, and XP didn't have the drivers built in. Spent over 2 days hunting for drivers that worked, finally contacted Compaq. After explaining the situation to them, they told me "It is not possible to install XP on that machine as there are no XP hard disk drivers for it." I ended up putting Vista back on. In summary: Be aware that it might not actually be possible to put XP on it, if they have used hardware that doesn't have any XP drivers, especially relating to the hard disk.