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 Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 1:17 pm Post subject: Can i do this |
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| I have a laptop thats screwed up. Its a vista based factory built laptop. If i install xp over it will it have all its laptop stuff? Like the stuff for the touch pad and such?
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 1:18 pm Post subject: |
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You mean the drivers?
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Hero
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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| oib111 wrote: | | You mean the drivers? |
ya i found a site with all the drivers. so if i install xp can i just install them after its formated?
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 8:53 pm Post subject: |
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| elpacco wrote: | | u need it on a disk |
No duh moron. Im asking if it is do able. Ill have to use a plug and play usb mouse to do this but i i got all the drivers for it.
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why will you need a usb mouse to do it? i've done this before on a cousins computer and the touchpad worked fine with the windows drivers, until i installed the real drivers. and btw, some computers need you to slip stream, i think the AHCI (or something), drivers onto an XP disc for it to detect your SATA hdd.
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Download the drivers for winxp(usually found in manufactures official site)
Either get a legal or illegal copy of winxp(Doesn't matters, theres a bypass to get the latest update anyway)
Install the OS
Install a AV before the drivers.
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Hero
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 7:49 am Post subject: |
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| zyndr0m wrote: | Download the drivers for winxp(usually found in manufactures official site)
Either get a legal or illegal copy of winxp(Doesn't matters, theres a bypass to get the latest update anyway)
Install the OS
Install a AV before the drivers. |
Working on burning xp pro iso to disc now 
Well Thank gawd i have a usb mouse or i coulnt do this for shit as it wont have any touch pad drivers
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 1:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Hero wrote: | | zyndr0m wrote: | Download the drivers for winxp(usually found in manufactures official site)
Either get a legal or illegal copy of winxp(Doesn't matters, theres a bypass to get the latest update anyway)
Install the OS
Install a AV before the drivers. |
Working on burning xp pro iso to disc now
Well Thank gawd i have a usb mouse or i coulnt do this for shit as it wont have any touch pad drivers |
Im pretty sure the pad would work...
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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| zyndr0m wrote: | | Hero wrote: | | zyndr0m wrote: | Download the drivers for winxp(usually found in manufactures official site)
Either get a legal or illegal copy of winxp(Doesn't matters, theres a bypass to get the latest update anyway)
Install the OS
Install a AV before the drivers. |
Working on burning xp pro iso to disc now
Well Thank gawd i have a usb mouse or i coulnt do this for shit as it wont have any touch pad drivers |
Im pretty sure the pad would work... |
they usually do. i've done it so many times (not the same laptop) and the touchpad has never failed me yet.
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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| doing this to my desktop was a big mistake...........
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| Hero wrote: | | doing this to my desktop was a big mistake........... |
you should have split your hdd into two partitions (or three if you wanted one for backing up your work) and dual booted both vista and xp. if xp didn't work then you could always delete the xp partition and extend the vista partition back to original size.
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| fullyawesome wrote: | | Hero wrote: | | doing this to my desktop was a big mistake........... |
you should have split your hdd into two partitions (or three if you wanted one for backing up your work) and dual booted both vista and xp. if xp didn't work then you could always delete the xp partition and extend the vista partition back to original size. |
I was going to but decided against that because of lack of ram.
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| Hero wrote: | | fullyawesome wrote: | | Hero wrote: | | doing this to my desktop was a big mistake........... |
you should have split your hdd into two partitions (or three if you wanted one for backing up your work) and dual booted both vista and xp. if xp didn't work then you could always delete the xp partition and extend the vista partition back to original size. |
I was going to but decided against that because of lack of ram. |
why would you need more ram...?
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| Hero wrote: | | fullyawesome wrote: | | Hero wrote: | | doing this to my desktop was a big mistake........... |
you should have split your hdd into two partitions (or three if you wanted one for backing up your work) and dual booted both vista and xp. if xp didn't work then you could always delete the xp partition and extend the vista partition back to original size. |
I was going to but decided against that because of lack of ram. |
Hahahahahahaha! What!?
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Hero
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| fullyawesome wrote: | | Hero wrote: | | fullyawesome wrote: | | Hero wrote: | | doing this to my desktop was a big mistake........... |
you should have split your hdd into two partitions (or three if you wanted one for backing up your work) and dual booted both vista and xp. if xp didn't work then you could always delete the xp partition and extend the vista partition back to original size. |
I was going to but decided against that because of lack of ram. |
why would you need more ram...? |
JUst for vista in particular. I figured it was a waste to have eating my hard drive as i download alot of movies.
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