Downgrading from windows vista.

[Neoteam1]

Can someone help. Im running windows vista on a laptop and want to downgrade it to xp cos its a slow laptop. My trouble is when I downgrade doing a fresh reboot I install xp then I get the blue screen. Why is it not letting me downgrade to xp.

 

[seanpr92]

Can someone help. Im running windows vista on a laptop and want to downgrade it to xp cos its a slow laptop. My trouble is when I downgrade doing a fresh reboot I install xp then I get the blue screen. Why is it not letting me downgrade to xp.

most likely your hardware is incompatible i would install windows 7 how much ram you got?

 

[Neoteam1]

3GB DDR2 but it lags iv tried.

 

[InsaneNutter]

What does the blue screen error message say?

You probably need to go in to the laptops bios settings and disable AHCI / set the hard drive to operate in Legacy IDE if souch options exist.

Why not upgrade to Windows 7, it will perform much better than XP does.