Installing XP over Vista Home Premium

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Installing XP over Vista Home Premium

I found Vista didn’t work well with some of the StopMotion animation programs I wanted to use (in paticular Animaationkone ) so I decided to install XP. Now Dell do not officially support XP on my new Inspiron 1720 but I managed to get it working and found all the drivers I needed.

I wanted to install XP Pro instead of Vista home premium on my new Dell Inspiron 1720 so here are the steps that worked for me, you might find them useful.

Step 1
Go into the BIOS by hitting F2 on boot up and turn off Flash cache module & change SATA from AHCI to ATA. This is the most important step…if you do not complete it you will not be able to install XP.

Step 2
Put XP CD in CD drive

Hit F12 at start up ( Black and White Screen )

Choose CD/DVD drive to boot from by hitting enter…
Press Space Bar ..(any key) to boot from CD

Should then go to Blue Setup Screen

Step 3

(I decided to delete my partition and reformat it but you normally would not have to do this)

Choose Set up Windows XP by pressing Enter

Page down…Press F8

Choose the Partition you want to install XP no …normally C drive ..

Step 4
Press L to delete existing OS on choosen Partitiion.

Setup Begins…

When complete you should get something like this..

Now when this completes ie boots in to Windows XP you will have to install a few drivers to get your network card wireless adaptor , sound card and video drivers etc. to work.

Also note that if you do not have Service Pack 2 on your install CD then you should Download Service Pack 2..

If your XP CD does not have Service Pack 2 then download Service Pack 2 using this link.

Drivers You Might Need !

R180917 NVidia Graphics Drivers

R153997 Intel Chipset

R171789 Sound Drivers

R149798 Network Card (Broadcom)

 

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