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Hey PCHF I just bought a Compaq laptop with Vista on it and i want to downgrade it to XP but whenever i try to install XP the setup cant find the harddrive. is this some method compaq uses to stop people formating? Cheers

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Hi there,

What model is it?

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Hello and welcome to PC Help Forum.

Firstly you cannot downwgrade from Vista to XP.

Does the hard drive showup in BIOS/Setup?

Also before you try to format this to XP are the drivers available to install for this machine to run XP?
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Yes the drivers are availablke and i am trying to format and then install xp not install xp through vista.
yes the drive shows up in bios just not in the windows xp setup.

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Hello and welcome to PC Help Forum.

Firstly you cannot downwgrade from Vista to XP.

Does the hard drive showup in BIOS/Setup?

Also before you try to format this to XP are the drivers available to install for this machine to run XP?

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Drivers are available?Good.

Download drivers first for XP and put to floppy/CD/DVD.Saves time.

You can create a dual boot?

Is this what you are trying to do?
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