How to revert to windows xp after installing windows 7 trial

[bigk101]

Hello,
Win 7 was supposed to back up windows XP so we can go back to XP , The Computer has XP installed from factory and there are no XP setup disks !

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

You will need to purchase xp discs.

 

[Hawkeye22]

Hello,
Win 7 was supposed to back up windows XP so we can go back to XP

There is no direct upgrade path from XP to 7. You would have to do a clean install of windows 7, therefore there is no way to "uninstall" windows 7 to get back to XP. Whoever told you you could back out to XP was wrong. If you did a custom install, windows 7 will have backed up your old windows folder by renaming it to windows.old, but that's just so you can access those files, not to uninstall from.

 

[bigk101]

There is no direct upgrade path from XP to 7. You would have to do a clean install of windows 7, therefore there is no way to "uninstall" windows 7 to get back to XP. Whoever told you you could back out to XP was wrong. If you did a custom install, windows 7 will have backed up your old windows folder by renaming it to windows.old, but that's just so you can access those files, not to uninstall from.

Thank you for the great answer !