XP on vista system by mistake

I was going to reformat the hd in my netbook that works under Xp, but it doesn't have an optical drive. Put the drive in the pc and forgot about recovery and then we had a power failure and when it restarted it installed xp on my vista system don't want xp on this machine any help with this problem

I was going to reformat the hd in my netbook that works under Xp, but it doesn't have an optical drive. Put the drive in the pc and forgot about recovery and then we had a power failure and when it restarted it installed xp on my vista system don't want xp on this machine any help with this problem

If the Vista recovery partition was wiped out on the PC and then your only option would be to use the media to restore Vista Factory that has been provided with or you created since the recovery partition when you first purchased the computer.  If no partition restoration or media, you must contact the manufacturer of the computer for a set of restore media (nominal cost) if they are still available.

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