Re-Installing Windows Vista

Fatloss08

i have a HP Pavillion DV2000 laptop

it has 2 drives , 1 of which is a recovery drive

didnt get any cd's with the machine as was told the recovery drive has all i need

how do i wipe my machine and re-install it again ??????

Lazarus2.0

Everything you need to know should be here ...

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&docname=c00809678

positivenote

sorry for hijackin this thread guys...
if i get a laptop with 1g of ram that has vista s its os, is it easy enough to uninstall and install xp as its os instead? as ive heard that visat uses up the 1g of ram just running? thanks

IamMetaldave

positivenote wrote: »

sorry for hijackin this thread guys...
if i get a laptop with 1g of ram that has vista s its os, is it easy enough to uninstall and install xp as its os instead? as ive heard that visat uses up the 1g of ram just running? thanks

Put in the XP cd and let it run. 1GB of RAM is loads for XP.

Read this.

Lazarus2.0

positivenote wrote: »

sorry for hijackin this thread guys...
if i get a laptop with 1g of ram that has vista s its os, is it easy enough to uninstall and install xp as its os instead? as ive heard that visat uses up the 1g of ram just running? thanks

Before proceeding with that make sure you have saved XP drivers for your hardware on to CD or other removable media (or at least make sure XP drivers are available for your hardware) .

IamMetaldave

nessyguin wrote: »

Before proceeding with that make sure you have saved XP drivers for your hardware on to CD or other removable media (or at least make sure XP drivers are available for your hardware) .

Excellent point!

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