Wouldn't suggest that you try unless you have a bit of
computer experience.
Removing VISTA and installing XP can be done. Not the
same model but I've got a year old TOSHIBA laptop and I
did it.
The first and most important thing is that you have to have the
DOS level (mini-drivers) for the SATA hard drive controller
otherwise XP will tell you that it can't find any drives. SATA
mini-drivers must load from a floppy disk, when XP says
to press F6 to load additional drivers shortly after the WinXP
install CD boots. Your computer probably has no floppy drive,
mine doesn't, so I used a USB floppy drive. Possibly the
computer has a BIOS setting to make the SATA drive act
like IDE and you might not need mini-drivers. Maybe.
Before doing anything drastic find out what the sound card,
video adapter, wireless card, network card, modem, SATA
controller etc. chipsets are. What motherboard chipset does it
have. Do some Google searches of the computer and you'll
likely find out quite a lot. A program called Everest will
query the computer and tell you what is in the machine. My
Toshiba motherboard was an INTEL chipset and I got a
lot of the needed drivers from
www.intel.comNo thanks to Toshiba for any help.
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