Here's the situation. I just got a replacement desktop from Dell (Studio XPS 8500, running Windows 8) after my old desktop (Older model in the same line, running Windows Vista) died. Luckily the death didn't kill my hard drive, so I had it removed and reinstalled into my new computer along with the hard drive already in it. I've gotten access to all the files on it, everything is there and ready, but because of the OS change I can't run anything. None of my programs work and I'm not even sure I'd be able to change everything over to run on Windows 8.
I hate Windows 8 with a passion already. I want to boot from my old hard drive to see if I can run Windows Vista off of it instead of Windows 8. I've gone into the BIOS menu under Boot and have been staring at my five boot devices for the past hour.
The devices are: UEI: Windows Boot Manager, USD Storage Device, Internal ODD Devices, USB Floppy Device and UEFI: IP4 Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller, currently in that order.
I don't know which device I should try to boot from to get my Vista back and I'm scared to try on the chance it might mess up my computer. Any advice on what to do and how to do it would be greatly appreciated.
I hate Windows 8 with a passion already. I want to boot from my old hard drive to see if I can run Windows Vista off of it instead of Windows 8. I've gone into the BIOS menu under Boot and have been staring at my five boot devices for the past hour.
The devices are: UEI: Windows Boot Manager, USD Storage Device, Internal ODD Devices, USB Floppy Device and UEFI: IP4 Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller, currently in that order.
I don't know which device I should try to boot from to get my Vista back and I'm scared to try on the chance it might mess up my computer. Any advice on what to do and how to do it would be greatly appreciated.