Re: Need help with Unistalling Vista

You might try Ubuntu , which will make a separate partition on the
hard drive and install itself,

I find Ubuntu a close match to Windows P, but with many features you
find immediatly useful.

http://www.ubuntu.com/

I am using Ubuntu 7.04, and use it for major work

yu can either download it or ask for CD's

https://shipit.ubuntu.com/

Optomise the hard drive,

Pop the Ubuntu CD in the Drive, start it up and off you go !

Hope this helps

Chester




On Jul 5, 7:32 pm, Laura <La...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks for all the feedback, learning a lot here

Isn't there a way I can put xp on the new hard drive I just partitioned?
So that way vista would be on one h drive C and then xp on the other
h drive E?

The big thing here isn't that I don't want vista, it is that myh mother is
78yrs and use to xp, she got the laptop for while in Mexico with wifi to get
on the internet she didn't realize it had vista on it.

Laura

"DL" wrote:
*Before* you do that you need to check on Toshiba site, specifict to your
laptop, as to whether winxp drivers are avialable. - If they are not, and
they may not be, dont even try.
The other point of course is that you may invalidate any warranty, and, or
support from Tosh.
If it was preinstalled with a version of Vista other than Home, it may have
downgrade writes to winxp, assuming winxp drivers are available.
If you still wish to go ahead with WinXp, you would need a retail edition,
and you would need to boot from the winxp cd, delete all partitions, prior
installing winxp. Ensure you have a means of reinstalling Vista *first*
You cannot format a win partition within win.

"Laura" <La...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:08AAD293-E2AD-489C-A5C4-4681E6745C75@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi

I'm new here to the forum, but great info

I am not a techie at all, but know my way around

My mother recently purchased a
Toshiba laptop and it has Vista on it, which she hates and wants to
uninstall it

I have made a new partition on it.

The Vista is on drive C and I have new Drive E

When I input the cd to install XP it is stating that it cannot since there
is a newer verision on the laptop. If I try to reformat C and take Vista
off,
it says i can't do that since this is the operating system for the laptop
and
won't format.

How do I remove Vista and put XP on it?

Thanks

.

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