computer help: I have a computer TOSHIBA Satellite A200 and Vista Installed,but I want to degrade Vista to WindowsXP.

shams.amir

I have a computer TOSHIBA Satellite A200 and Vista Installed,but I want to degrade Vista to WindowsXP.

Could anyone please help me how can I change this.
Thank You,

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The Clue 33 #
Minot, ND, US | 2 years, 2 months ago (2 hours, 4 minutes after post)

Get your XP CD, make a copy of your Documents file and other programs that you want to save. Then at boot up press any key when asked Boot to CD then when asked to install Click delete C: then folow the instructions on formating your HDD. Done XP is now reinstalled on your PC Hope this helps :-)

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The Clue 33 #
Minot, ND, US | 2 years, 2 months ago (2 hours, 5 minutes after post)

Forgot to mention in previous post. Make a copy of your Documents file and other programs that you want to save and burn them to CD. Hope this helps :-)

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ronrumpf 1 #
US | 2 years, 2 months ago (4 hours, 39 minutes after post)

You might check with Microsoft. They are offering a special downgrade disk with some of the new computers. Why don’t you wait a few weeks, Microsoft is set to release SP1 which should stabilize the OS.

Good luck ron

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Marconius 3 #
San Francisco, CA, US | 2 years, 2 months ago (7 hours, 41 minutes after post)

oldfart, that’s why you reformat the whole machine.

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CokeBottle 0 #
Motala, 16, SE | 2 years, 2 months ago (2 days, 19 hours after post)

I have a HP Pavilion laptop/notebook PC with Windows Vista Home Premium (Multi-lang), biggest problem to downgrade is that HP and other seems to have an agreement with Microsoft to not release drivers for Windows XP.

So start looking for drivers for your hardware before you do all exampels here, and my tips is download and burn a CD -”Hiren’s BootCD” v9.0 or later and do all things with this CD…

Hiren’s BootCD 9.3 - www.hiren.info
http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd

+ Partition Magic Pro 8.05
Best software to partition hard drive

- Remove [Partition]
- Format with [NTFS] Windows XP version…, make it [Primary]
- Then you also can use some freeware tools to make a new Windows XP CD with your PC’s hardware drivers included, lot of info about this around on the net…
- Use Windows XP CD to install Windows on your PC…

Good Luck !!!

/ Support4Free - (email removed)

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ronrumpf 1 #
US | 2 years, 2 months ago (3 days, 4 hours after post)

If you want to go with partitioning there is a free partition program called PARTITION LOGIC. I have used it several times and it works fine. You can Google for it.

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princess9278 0 #
Wood River, IL, US | 2 years, 2 months ago (1 week after post)

I am fighting with a Toshiba Satellite A200 downgrade right now. We bought these laptops for my company 6 months ago thinking that we could easily downgrade to winxp, but we were very wrong. I called Toshiba in hopes that they were releasing drivers for these laptops for winxp, but they said that they would not be. As I have been checking back at the Toshiba website, slowly enough, some of the devices are finally having winxp compatible drivers. We put winxp on these laptops, and our biggest problem has been a flickering display. It is not very noticeable, but if you are typing while the laptop flickers, keystrokes are lost, which is a tremendous hassle. I have been looking for a fix, and so far my only lead is the bluetooth. It seems that the toshiba bluetooth stack for windows causes this issue. I installed just the microsoft bluetooth stack, and I have yet to see my display flicker. My fingers are crossed that this fixes the problem. The only laptop of the same type that kept vista is my laptop, which surprisingly enough, has had no problems. My thought on this is that it is just better off to leave vista on these laptops.

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racar #
An Unknown Location | 2 years, 1 month ago (1 month, 1 week after post)

this will help you..

http://www.tamalecart.com/toshibaA200/

cheers

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ku #
An Unknown Location | 2 years ago (1 month, 1 week after post)

install linux :D

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dr.koni #
An Unknown Location | 2 years ago (2 months after post)

Links to a zip file with all working Toshiba A200 Series laptop drivers for Windows XP.

My personal upload.

Works for all released A200/205’s

Download:
http://rapidshare.com/files/89200761/…
http://rapidshare.com/files/89201341/…

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adnan.mujib8 #
New Delhi, 07, IN | 1 year, 11 months ago (2 months, 3 weeks after post)

Want to put buletooth in my Toshiba SatelliteA200 laptop

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astar0id 1 #
Dollard-des-Ormeaux, QC, CA | 1 year, 11 months ago (2 months, 3 weeks after post)

Try adding a partion of you hard drives, adding windows to that hard drive and then removing vista from “remove programs”…

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basheerdesigne #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 8 months ago (5 months, 2 weeks after post)

but not detect hdd

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CokeBottle 0 #
Motala, 16, SE | 1 year, 7 months ago (7 months after post)

Maybee Harddrive is S-ATA, then you need drivers for that in your CD/DVD…

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snitschk #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 6 months ago (7 months, 2 weeks after post)

I have rolled the Toshiba A200 back to XP, so it’s possible.

The Hard Drive is a sata drive. The XP Install disc doesn’t include the sata driver, so when you run install it wont find the drive. I slipstreamed the sata driver into the xp disc using nlite. Google nlite for how to do that.

The driver that you need is an Intel controller, which can be downloaded from toshiba - you need - “ACHI XP F6 Install Tool”

once you have XP installed, there are still some challenges in getting all the drivers. I ended up changing hardware id’s in some of the older drivers to get them to install on xp, which can be risky, but I think Toshiba has released a heap of XP drivers now, due to popular demand.

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pat_marve #
An Unknown Location | 1 week ago (2 years, 2 months after post)

u need t insatll nlite and incrporate the drivers of the sata drive HDD on XP bootable otherwise sing merry Xmas everytime u try toinsatll XP on vista…

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