xp on vista machine?

is it possible to install xp on a desktop that originally had vista and now has tiny 7?
my dad cant get on with technology he just wants to stick to what he knows :

im sure i read somewhere that you cant go backwards, but im not sure

 

I don't think it's really possible.I tried putting to XP on my Laptop that has Vista Premium and the install XP option was greyed out.So it's probably not possible.

 

If you know what you are doing you could mod Windows 7 or Vista to look very much like XP, and even to behave as such.

 

Very much this.I pretty much did exactly this.

 

nothing i ever do is lol
im guessing a format is in order?

 

its xp pro sp3

 

you allways can... you just need to format it all...
put the XP cd in the cd rom and boot it at startup
when you restart your pc with the cd in the cd rom press f8 lots of tims (sometimes its f9 or f12 depends on the pc)
then when it asks where to boot from choose cd rom....
if you are afraid of installations dont do it... but its not that hurd... so good luck

 

its oem

 

You can in some way.

The laptop of us had Vista, but now it is on XP.

With a format and an XP CD (real or not) you will get it installed

 

Just set up a dual boot xp/w7 combo if your planning on using it also-otherwise just load xp.Im running xp pro and w7,both unpaid for.

 

thanks loonylion

 

all versions of windows will block installation of previous versions from with windows Running, That is why it shows that the "install Windows XP is grayed out. I stuck a win 2k disk in a windows XP machine and it popped up and claimed that I can't install windows 2k and blah blah blah. same with 98 and every other previous version, it's one of those situations where the computer says "why would you want to downgrade?" and tries to keep you from doing so by "accident"

but back on topic, make sure that before you install windows XP that you have all the required drivers for the computer before you make the switch, otherwise you will run into a lot of problems with setting the computer back up. (use the device manager to find out what the parts are called and look up the parts from the manufacturers or if necessary use the website of the computer manufacturer.) That way you can get the computer back up and running and not have any "unknown device" issues.

and as said earlier in the topic, tell the computer to boot from the XP disk and you shouldn't have any problems with erasing the hard drive for XP.

 

ah yes that is a good point... but once again that is why you check device manager before you try. SATA drivers are available for XP and are usable at installation. I should know, I have a desktop in my bedroom right now that has SATA onboard and the drivers are on the driver CD that comes with the motherboard. (custom build)

 

lucky for me eh? I have a floppy drive and blank floppies. and a secondary cd drive, also a little program called n-lite, ever hear of it?