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I have a client/friend who would like me to downgrade his HP dv7-1264nr notebook from Vista to XP. I know its possible, but Ive never attempted it before.
I found a rather short, but decent article on how to do this but Im wondering If it should be done at all or if I should just copy everything to a external backup drive, install XP from scratch, and then just let him access his files from the backup, Or copy his important files (Docs n stuff) back to his new "My Documents" folder. I believe he thinks that everything will be the same except it will all be "XP". I know it wont, and I told him Im just not sure what will happen if I do this, but Im sure its not going to be as smooth as he thinks. So I came here to get the low-down.
Has anyone done this before? Am I dancing with the BSOD here? Is there a better way?
Thanks in advance guys.
I found a rather short, but decent article on how to do this but Im wondering If it should be done at all or if I should just copy everything to a external backup drive, install XP from scratch, and then just let him access his files from the backup, Or copy his important files (Docs n stuff) back to his new "My Documents" folder. I believe he thinks that everything will be the same except it will all be "XP". I know it wont, and I told him Im just not sure what will happen if I do this, but Im sure its not going to be as smooth as he thinks. So I came here to get the low-down.
Has anyone done this before? Am I dancing with the BSOD here? Is there a better way?
Thanks in advance guys.