Me and my brother want Laptops and Windows Vista is compatible with pretty much no programs. How do I get XP on the computer? I don’t know that much about computers so please be detailed.

Thanks.
i have the xp installation disk.

how do you format your drive?

I know there is a folder containing all the files needed for restoring WIN XP PRO from installation of SP3. Where is it? or in other words which files i can delete now two years after installing SP3 and know for sure I will stay with it?
I was wrong. The question had to be about SP2.

My boss’s computer had a virus which I thought I got rid of using several virus removal tools. It was the XP Security virus (which mocks the real Windows Security Center to try to get you to buy the hack’s removal software.) After removal, the computer was just squirrely. Here are the symptoms:

- Cannot drag/drop desktop icons
- Cannot cut/paste files
- Cannot activate Windows Firewall
- Cannot add/remove/change Windows Users
- No internet access
- Several other weird annoying things that just feel like corrupt Windows.

After all this, I figured the best thing would be to reformat the drive with a fresh install of Windows. The computer has had Windows XP Media Center Edition as its OS. I don’t have the original CD, so I decided to do a clean install of Windows XP.

While installing XP, I get the BSOD right after all of the initial files load. STOP: 0x0000007B (OxF7A8A524,0xc0000024,0×00000000, 0×00000000)

However, I can still boot in safe mode and I can still load up Windows (with all the problems listed above.)

I’ve replaced the hard drive…. no difference. I’ve removed the DVD Drive…. no difference. Removed the RAM sticks one at a time…. removed the NIC card. Nothing changes.

All I want to do is start with a “new” computer and a clean install of XP. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!
I’m not sure if Acronis True Image 11 Home would help… I get the BSOD even with the HDD disconnected.

It’s done this on 2 of my compaqs, and one of my gateways. The hard drives are wiped clean, so no OS or drivers on them currently. I boot from the CD, format or leave file system, and it gets partway through the install, and I get the XP BSOD (blue screen of death) saying something went wrong, try restarting, or try safe mode (which of course isn’t possible). PLEASE HELP ME!
I have tried multiple installs, and have sucessfully installed on other computers. The compat issue may be valid, I did get win 98 SE to run on the gateway about a year back. Please, give me more ideas!

I am about to buy a Laptop. The first thing I’m going to do is remove Vista and install Windows XP Professional. But some of the newest Laptops don’t have any XP drivers. So, there’s a problem… :-/

I like this Laptop:

http://support.gateway.com/s/Mobile/2007/Avalon/2905965R/2905965Rsp3.shtml

But I went to the Gateway website and looked up the drivers, and I found ONLY ONE WinXP driver. That was for the SATA drive, I think. Does that mean Windows XP won’t recognize the modem, WLAN, webcam, etc…?

I found the chipset and graphics drivers here:

http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/sb/CS-025753.htm

But what about the rest of the stuff?

I have recently installed Ubuntu 7.04 dual booting with win xp. Ubuntu is working fine except for sounds. I cant here any sort of sound. The sound in Win XP is working fine. I tried suggestions from different forums and most of them are Greek to me. Can somebody help by telling me how to go about it in simple terms. Thanks in advance. The sound card is Via 8237
PS: I have my network connection working in Ubuntu.

where to get the driver to get free download?

I have a 200GB Western Digital HD with a USB-to-IDE external enclosure. Everytime when I plug the USB cable into to my Toshiba L25-S119 Notebook computer, the Windows XP Home hang/freeze. The following are some information about my computer hardware, OS, and HD:

Computer maker and model: Toshiba Satellite L25-S119
Hardware information (general):
CPU: Intel Celeron M 370 (1.5GHz) 1MB L2, 400MHz FSB
RAM: 768MB (256 + 512) PC4200 DDR2 533MHz SDRAM 1.8V SODIMM
Chipset: ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M Chipset
Southbridge: ATI SB400
Internal HD: 60GB FUJITSU MHV2060AH, 5400RPM, EIDE (ATA-6)
Optical drive: MATS.H.I.TA DVD/CDRW UJDA770

OS and BIOS information:
OS: Windows XP Home with SP2
BIOS: Toshiba v1.80 (12/14/05)

External USB HD: Western Digital 200GB HD (IDE)in NTFS with 2 partitions. (approximately 150 + 50 GB)

External Enclosure: Metal Gear Box with AC-to-DC power supply.

Other information:

The external USB HD works fine with my another two desktop PCs: Windows XP Pro SP2 and Windows 98 SE (with NTFS for Win98 and USB driver). And, it also works perfectly with my friends’ Sony and HP Notebook computers (Win xp Home).

My first thought was a driver problem. However, I checked the drivers it installed in this Notebook were same as my other PCs.

I tried Windows XP Pro SP2 clean installation on this computer, but the problem still occured. Therefore, it is not some problems with the Home edition of Windows XP.

The external enclosure has a DC power supply, so power won’t be the problem.

I have tried all my three USB ports. All the three USB ports works fine with my SanDisk 1GB Flash Drive.

I did a CHKDSK using my desktop PC, and the disk was fine.

I also uninstalled and reinstalled all the USB and disk drivers, but it still the same.(set DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES=1 devmgmt.msc)

The only situation that it works with this computer is when I boot the computer from Knoppix Linux CD. So, I guess this is not a hardware problem. How do you guys think? Thanks in advance.
I forgot to mention that both my computer and external enclosure are with USB 2.0 ports, and the drive works fine with other computers that have either USB 2.0 or USB 1.1.
First, thanks for all the answers.
One more thing…
I took out my Maxtor 91531U3 15.3GB HD (FAT32) from my old desktop PC and put it in the same enclosure. Then plug it in this Toshiba NB. Guess what? It works.
So, it should be some problems with this Western Digital HD, right?

Purchased in 2003, try to install Xp service pack 2, but failed mutiple times. The computer frozen during the installation and won’t reboot. (alway comes with the blue screen.

using floppy as well as pxe lan card