Satellite Pro A200GE how downgrade from Vista to XP?

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• How can I downgrade Satellite Pro A200GE-1F9 company from Vista to XP Pro?

  Hello

  I just took delivery of a "Toshiba Satellite Pro A200GE-1F9 - Core 2 Duo T7300 2 GHz - 15.4"TFT".» Great laptop, but the operating system is very slow... transfer files, access to the internet.

  I understand that the license allows me to downgrade to XP. The question is how can I do this, because this operating system is not ready for the technology on my laptop.

  1 Toshiba provide me with a XP OS disk?
  2 Toshiba provide me with new XP drivers for my laptop?
  3. I have trouble with XP recognizing my hard drive due to the SATA drives.

  Vista is useless because it does so not. Even Microsoft are allowing users to downgrade - please see below.

  Here are a few notes I found on the web

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  Can I downgrade my OEM of Windows version

  Vista business to Windows XP Professional? Yes. Right of demotion OEM desktop operating systems PC apply to Windows Vista business and Windows Vista Edition full, as stated in the terms of the license. Please note, downgrade versions OEM Windows Vista business and Windows Vista Ultimate are limited to Windows XP Professional (including Windows XP Edition Tablet PC and Windows XP x 64 edition). End users can use the following media for their downgrade: Volume Licensing media (provided that the end-user has a Volume License Agreement), trade retail (FPP) or System Builder hologram CD (provided that the software is acquired in accordance with the Microsoft OEM System Builder License). Use of degraded operating system is governed by the Windows Vista Business license terms, and the end user cannot use the downgrade and professional Windows Vista operating system. There is no right of demotion for Windows Vista Home Basic or Windows Vista Edition Home Premium.

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  If you want Windows XP Pro on a new machine, Windows Vista (Business or Ultimate), and then downgrade
  I don't know how many people is aware of this, but if you buy a Windows Vista Business or Ultimate then you can use a Windows XP CD (that you have legal access to) to load Windows XP on this machine.

  When you need the product key / or need to activate, it will potentially fail, but a simple call to with your Vista product key activation center should give you all the details you need. Then, when you're ready to put Vista on this machine, you can do without the purchase of this new cost. Alternatively, you can buy Windows XP today and if you want to load Vista, you can give more money to a store for a copy again.

  For more information, go to http://oem.microsoft.com/script/sites/public/licensing.htm

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  Hello

  First of all thanks for the information on the downgrade of the OEM of Windows version.

  I bought my Satellite with Vista and it would be nice that I would get a XP for free.

  But to be honest I'm not really sure if Microsoft will activate Win XP after buying the Vista operating system. But who knows, maybe you should say with the support of Microsoft.

  To my knowledge, you will not get any additional operating system from Toshiba, but only the Toshiba Recovery CD.
  Each Toshiba laptop has been delivered with the recovery CD that contains the Microsoft operating system (XP or Vista), drivers Toshiba and utilities.

  That's all. If you lose the recovery CD, you can order the same CD/DVD with the same operating system of the authorized Toshiba service provider!

  But like I said above, a retirement details you should specify it with MS is supported.

  If you get more information from MS, please report it here in this thread. It s interesting theme.

  Best regards

• Satellite L355-S7907 - how downgrade from Vista to XP?

  Hello

  I recently bought the Satellite L355-S7907 and do not like Vista I want to run Windows XP Service Pack 2 on it. Now I tried several methods, first start XP from CD, it loads for a few minutes then I get the blue screen of death, by saying that I should run ' CHKDISK F.
  I ran check disk and my my hard drive is fine.

  The other method I've tried is partition my hard drive then when Vista is on trying to install XP on the new partition. Vista allows me to install on a partition, because "Windows on your computer is newer than the version on CD.

  What should I do here? I don't like Vista and I'd love to have XP working on this laptop.

  Any help much appreciated

  J.B

  Hello

  Downgrade from Vista to XP isn t possible. Therefore, you must make a clean and new Windows XP installation. You wrote that you get a BSOD if you start from XP disc, what code BSOD is it exactly?

  I guess you only need drivers SATA to install XP. Have you installed them?
  In addition I recommend read the discussions here in the forum about it. You'll have hundreds of them! ;)

• Satellite L300 - 03C - how downgrade from Vista to XP?

  I get blue screen after Installation finished.

  How do I get help please

  Hello

  What BSOD you get exactly?

  Satellite L300, you need SATA drivers to install Windows on a drive of Microsoft because it s equipped to a SATA HDD. The driver you need you can find in the Intel Storage Manager package on the Toshiba site.

  If you don t have an external floppy drive you can use nLIte to create your own with these drivers installation disk.
  [www.nliteos.com]

  In addition, I can recommend hundreds of discussions on this question here in the forum.

  Good bye

• Satellite A200: Possibility to downgrade from Vista to XP?

  Hello!

  Is it possible to downgrade from vista to XP? I can't find driver of HARD drive for it. Can you help me?

  Hello!

  It is not possible to downgrade from Vista to XP.
  If you want XP you have to pay for it and have to insatall it instead of Vista.

  Toshiba drivers, you will get:
  http://EU.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com-online decision-making supported Downloads & => Download drivers

  Good bye

• How downgrade from Vista OEM in XP? XP will need to be purchased?

  I want to downgrade from vista to xp using my vista oem coa to activate? can I do without having to buy another os

  * original title - vista blues *.

  # You have need a key XP install / activate XP

• Satellite A200 - 1 M 4 - how downgrade from Vista to XP

  I got my * _Satellite A200-1M4_ * from Vista to XP pro.
  Do I have to downgrade the Bios too and please help me with the necessary drivers for * key to _FN_.

  Thank you

  Hi guys

  I would like to add that the Satellite A200 - 1 M 4 belongs to the * PSAE0E * series.

  This series needs a BIOS update after installing XP.
  The European driver Toshiba page provides a special version of Win XP BIOS.

  In addition, you can find the + Installation Instructions on the page of the driver.

  This document provides the proper installation order which is very important to get all the drivers and tools work properly.

  Best regards

• Satellite Pro A300D - how to get Vista drivers

  I bought a Toshiba Satellite Pro A300D laptop a few days ago.
  The first task was to wipe Vista Home Premium there and put professional Vista I needed to connect to a domain.

  I did this and then install the drivers from the Toshiba driver download pages.
  There were a lot of riders who have failed, but I managed to fix most of the problems aside when I display the laptop to a projector, I can start cutting the bottom of the external display only.

  In any case, I am now led to believe that there is recovery of HARD drive on the disk that could give me the right drivers that they have been installed at the arrival of the laptop.
  How can I get these out of the system on a disk for example so that I can resinstall?

  Thanks for your time.

  Hello

  > Anyway, I am now led to believe that there is recovery of HARD drive on the disk that could give me the right drivers that they have been installed at the arrival of the laptop. How can I get these out of the system on a disk for example so that I can reinstall?

  I think that this is not possible because the recovery of HARD drive contains only unique image files and you will not be able to get only the unique drivers of the recovery image.

  HARD drive recovery can be used to perform a new installation of operating system from the HARD disk (without using the disc).

  The European driver Toshiba page usually contains all drivers Vista compatible and necessary for your laptop model. So I doubt that your problem with the projector might have something to do with the Vista drivers.

• How downgrade from Vista Home Premium to Vista Home Basic

  Original title: I tried to upgrade Vista Home Basic to home premium how to uninstall and restore my previous settings on my laptop in my Home Basic

  How can I delete what I've installed and return to my Home Basic

  Hello
   
  1. Why did you downgrade to Vista Home Basic?
  2. how upgrade from Home Premium?
  3 did you use Windows Anytime Upgrade to upgrade?
  4. do you have the basic install of Vista Home Edition support?
   
  You cannot revert to a previous version after you upgrade, the only option you have is to clean install Home Basic. I suggest you back up your data on an external drive or another computer and do a clean install using the installation of Vista Edition family media Basic.
   
   
  Aziz Nadeem - Microsoft Support

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• Satellite U400-03 s - how downgrade from Vista to XP?

  Hi guys,.

  I bought laptop Toshiba Satellite U400/03 s with pre-installed Vista Business and I want to downgrade to Windows XP Professional. My laptop comes with a professional the product for Windows XP Recovery disk, but I don't know how to use this drive as it did not come with serial number.

  Where can I get the serial number? I have to ring Microsoft or Toshiba?

  Any help will be greatly appreciated.

  Thank you very much.

  Sunny

  Hello

  AFAIK the downgrade is fairly easy: just boot from the disk of XP downgrade that was shipped with your laptop and follow the instructions on the screen and that s all you have to do! :)

  You n t need a serial number, if you install the operating system on a disk from Toshiba. It s already configured.

• How downgrade from Vista to XP, Satellite A300-17N

  Hello to everyone!

  I am the owner of a Satellite A300-17N with windows vista
  Can someone tell me if I can downgrade my laptop to use win xp?
  Help, please!

  Hello Karlos

  In my view, what posed more questions this month. Before you wait here for a verification of the response by Satellite a category and you will find sufficient number of threads with the same question.

• Satellite Pro S300-11Y - downgrade from Windows XP Home edition does not work

  Hello

  I have a SAT PRO S300-11 since January 2009. It came with CD to downgrade to Windows XP, and I did several times over the years without any problem. But now I do and what finish to downgrade, when done last reset, windows starts to have problems and doesn t work.

  But if I do not the last reset on arrival of the downgrade the machine works perfectly, but when I do reboot then when windows starts it works. I try 5 times and still the same. I come back to windows original vista (I did CD to do) and it happens the same problem.

  Any help greatly appreciated,
  Thank you and sorry for my bad English.,.

  Jordi

  My English is not so perfect, but to be honest, I don't understand you.
  Do you mean by reset? Do you mean, finally, restart?

  By default the BIOS settings and try to reinstall Windows XP Home edition recovery image.

• Re: Satellite A300 PSAGCA-03C010 - downgrade from Vista to XP

  Hello

  I'm really new to all this, so I hope that will not ask a question that has already been answered :)

  I bought a laptop Toshiba Satellite A300 (model PSAGCA-03C010) in October 08. It came with a preinstalled version of Windows Vista Home Premium.

  Initially, using Vista was not too bad, but it happened at a point now where his things slows down and is really frustrating. Want to downgrade (/ upgrade) go back to Windows XP and I want to know the "implications" of this and if the Toshiba Utilities are consistent and will work with XP.

  First of all, can I use my ID current product that came with Vista and it enter the product ID when I install XP?

  Also, I am concerned about the Wi - fi, bluetooth, finger scan and HDMI applications - will this work with XP?

  Finally, when I created the "recovery disk", should everything go 'bad' when installing XP or if something does not work, can I use this recovery disc to return to the original "out of the box" installation?

  Thanks in advance and again once, apologies if these qns have already answered in other posts (im not too technical).

  Tamara

  > I'm really new to all this, so I hope that will not ask a question that has already been answered
  In many cases, these questions have been answered already and you might find useful views by using the Advanced ;) search option

  > Want to downgrade (/ upgrade) go back to Windows XP and I want to know the "implications" of this and if the Toshiba Utilities are consistent and will work with XP.
  Tools and Vista drivers are not compatible with Win XP. If you want to install Win XP and want to use all the features of the laptop you must make sure that the Win XP drivers are available for this model of laptop.

  Satellite A300 PSAGCA seems to be an Australian model. The drivers are placed here:
  http://www.ISD.Toshiba.com.au

  I checked this and found a few tools and drivers for this device.

  > First of all, can I use my ID current product that came with Vista and it enter the product ID when I install XP?
  No, you can not use it because it belongs to the Vista operating system preinstalled on your laptop.

  > Finally, when I created the "recovery disk", should everything go 'bad' when installing XP or if something does not work, can I use this recovery disc to return to the original "out of the box" installation?
  Yes, the recovery disk allows to reverse the laptop back to factory settings.
  You will get the same as on the first day of purchase

• How downgrade from Vista to XP?

  I have Windows XP disc but do not know how to pass Windows Vista

  * original title - I have Windows XP but when I had another computer it was Windows Vista.  Should is it difficult to switch from Windows Vista to Windows XP If Yes, how I do to make it.*

  You will need to reformat. Boot from the XP cd (you must change the boot on the CD drive in the BIOS).

  This will remove everything in Vista. So, if you decide to reinstall XP, copy / save (you can not copy programs, you will need to reinstall them), what you want first. Because you will not get it back after

• How downgrade from Vista to Windows XP

  Hi, recently buy recon HP pc, works well but has Vista installed. I compose music and found that the thing does not like Midi puts and on-site. I want to downgrade to good old windows XP, as it does not, please what is the process to achieve this? IM no PC illiterate, so please don't advise me to change the registry, etc. Thanks John

  If you don't have your own copy of Windows XP that you do not use on another machine, you will need to find someone who will sell you a. This must be a full retail do not copy the recovery disc that distribute computer with preinstalled Windows systems manufacturers. This will be limited to a particular machine. You will also need to go to drivers and downloads from the HP Web site and check if HP provide XP drivers for your model. If they are not, you will have problems of implementation.