Unistalling Vista, help please!

I recently bought a new DVD burner with Lightscribe (LG) and tried to
install. All software that came prevents me from installing due to
compatibility. Went to manufacturers web sit and no drivers available for
Vista. Had enough of all the frustrations with Vista and want to go back to
XP. Can I uninstall Vista and re-install XP ? or do I have to start anew
from a complete wipe of hard drive. Any recommendations or help would be
greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your help.

Yes, you have to do a clean install if you want to return to Windows XP.
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My Vista Quickstart Guide:
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"Yves Dubeau" <> wrote in message
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>I recently bought a new DVD burner with Lightscribe (LG) and tried to
>install. All software that came prevents me from installing due to
>compatibility. Went to manufacturers web sit and no drivers available for
>Vista. Had enough of all the frustrations with Vista and want to go back to
>XP. Can I uninstall Vista and re-install XP ? or do I have to start anew
>from a complete wipe of hard drive. Any recommendations or help would be
>greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your help.

Try here for a Lightscribe update..

http://www.lightscribe.com/downloadSection/index.aspx

"Yves Dubeau" <> wrote in message
news:%...
>I recently bought a new DVD burner with Lightscribe (LG) and tried to
>install. All software that came prevents me from installing due to
>compatibility. Went to manufacturers web sit and no drivers available for
>Vista. Had enough of all the frustrations with Vista and want to go back to
>XP. Can I uninstall Vista and re-install XP ? or do I have to start anew
>from a complete wipe of hard drive. Any recommendations or help would be
>greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your help.

--


Mike Hall
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/

Hi,

Gotta wipe the install partition. Actually, you will need to remove and
recreate the installation partition in order to install XP. Vista makes some
minor changes to the file system that XP setup will not be able to deal
with.

The latest versions of Lightscribe are supposed to be Vista compatible:
http://www.lightscribe.com/downloadSection/index.aspx The one you got may be
older and needs to be updated.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Yves Dubeau" <> wrote in message
news:%...
>I recently bought a new DVD burner with Lightscribe (LG) and tried to
>install. All software that came prevents me from installing due to
>compatibility. Went to manufacturers web sit and no drivers available for
>Vista. Had enough of all the frustrations with Vista and want to go back to
>XP. Can I uninstall Vista and re-install XP ? or do I have to start anew
>from a complete wipe of hard drive. Any recommendations or help would be
>greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your help.

No, the wipe is the most prudent method of going back to XP.
Since you upgraded it is possible to do a reversion, but even if
all conditions are perfect, XP would then require adjustment.
If you insist, KB927522 explains how roll vista back to XP:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927522/en-us

"Yves Dubeau" <> wrote in message news:%...
>I recently bought a new DVD burner with Lightscribe (LG) and tried to
> install. All software that came prevents me from installing due to
> compatibility. Went to manufacturers web sit and no drivers available for
> Vista. Had enough of all the frustrations with Vista and want to go back to
> XP. Can I uninstall Vista and re-install XP ? or do I have to start anew
> from a complete wipe of hard drive. Any recommendations or help would be
> greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your help.
>

afaik..that link is no longer functional or not available
Try this instead
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933168

"Michael Jennings" <> wrote in message news:%23%...
: No, the wipe is the most prudent method of going back to XP.
: Since you upgraded it is possible to do a reversion, but even if
: all conditions are perfect, XP would then require adjustment.
: If you insist, KB927522 explains how roll vista back to XP:
: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927522/en-us
:

"...winston" <merlin@druid9#.com> wrote
afaik..that link is no longer functional or not available
Try this instead
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933168

"Michael Jennings" <> wrote
: No, the wipe is the most prudent method of going back to XP.
: Since you upgraded it is possible to do a reversion, but even if
: all conditions are perfect, XP would then require adjustment.
: If you insist, KB927522 explains how roll vista back to XP:
: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927522/en-us

Thanks for posting that winston. I knew the previous KB article was
unavailable but didn't know it had been renumbered.

--
Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

yw..

"Rock" <> wrote in message
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> Thanks for posting that winston. I knew the previous KB article was
> unavailable but didn't know it had been renumbered.

sorry about that - I shouldn't even be posting.

"...winston" <merlin@druid9#.com> wrote in message news:...
afaik..that link is no longer functional or not available
Try this instead
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933168

"Michael Jennings" <> wrote in message news:%23%...
: No, the wipe is the most prudent method of going back to XP.
: Since you upgraded it is possible to do a reversion, but even if
: all conditions are perfect, XP would then require adjustment.
: If you insist, KB927522 explains how roll vista back to XP

Don't worrry about it..its a recent change..the renumbered kb article is
only about 72 hours old.
..winston

"Michael Jennings" <> wrote in message
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> sorry about that - I shouldn't even be posting.
>
> "...winston" <merlin@druid9#.com> wrote in message
> news:...
> afaik..that link is no longer functional or not available
> Try this instead
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933168
>
> "Michael Jennings" <> wrote in message
> news:%23%...
> : No, the wipe is the most prudent method of going back to XP.
> : Since you upgraded it is possible to do a reversion, but even if
> : all conditions are perfect, XP would then require adjustment.
> : If you insist, KB927522 explains how roll vista back to XP
>
>