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diplomat696   11-11-2006 at 10:59:28 PM

Hey guys, question, say you upgrade from XP to Vista RC1 can you then roll your system back to XP if say you dont like Vista and keep the settings you had on XP still?

I am toying with the idea but if I dont like Vista as it is can I go back without having to reinstall my operating system?

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Zoron   11-11-2006 at 11:03:37 PM
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Ideally, it would be better to install it on a separate hard drive to keep it as far away from your XP as possible. Upgrade installs are almost always flaky... and I don't yet know if that has changed with Vista.

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diplomat696   11-11-2006 at 11:09:28 PM
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hmm yeah, I was just working on that but it seems my junky old 200gb maxtor which i was going to put it on has flaked out. I guess thats what i get for not using it for like 18 months

I agree, upgrdes are usually not the best but I really am not in the mood to have to reinstall xp and all my programs etc.

if anyone knows if you can roll back to xp i would appreciate a quick not.

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fattony   11-12-2006 at 09:18:08 AM
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no i don't believe so, you can't just downgrade the o/s
xp will not install on vista, only way is if you install vista on a seperate partition and just scrap it after, going back to your xp

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hergieburbur   11-13-2006 at 02:49:56 AM
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No, as part of the Vista upgrade (at least for RC1), it tells you that you CANNOT roll the install back.

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diplomat696   11-13-2006 at 06:48:02 AM
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damn that sucks but i guess it makes sense, figured as much just wanted to confirm

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hergieburbur   11-13-2006 at 07:40:59 AM
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Another partition, preferably on another HDD is your best bet...

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diplomat696   11-14-2006 at 05:39:09 PM
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yeah or I could just scrub my xp drive :)

not my favorite thing to do though, feeling very lazy....

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Anonymous   05-10-2009 at 10:59:33 AM
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hi im on a asrock 4core 1333 glan intel quadcore q 6600 with 4 gigs ram 500 gig hardrive ,i loaded vista upgrade from xp home its ok but i noticed old windows files take up275 gigs of my 500 gig hardrive i cant use half of them so is it posibal to load xp and reformat hd then load windows xp clean then vista or is bill gates greed gona get in the way

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