Win7 for XP downgrade

Hi guys!

First of all thank you for helping me! Don't know where else to call for advice.

I have a laptop HP dv6000 series initially delivered with Win XP media center edition. Which I upgraded to Win7 Ultimate edition about 6 months ago. Due to some recent problems, I have to reformat my hard drive but I first downgrade to XP and then you go to win7 the graphics chip from nvidia starts to act up because of pilot computability.

Now, my recovery partition is still sitting on the harddriver but by pressing F11 or F10 at startup won't boot me into recovery mode more. To top it of I never created the recovery DVDs. But as I said the partition is still there.

Is it possible for me to access to restore to xp?

Thanks in advance!

Click Start > right click on computer > manage > column on the left, find the disk management. Find your XP recovery partition it and right click and choose to mark it active. Ignore the warning sign. The next time you start it should start recovering in XP.

Do not press f10 or f11 for this procedure.

If this does not work, you will need to order recovery XP disks to form HP if they are still available.

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