Hey all, I should have done this months ago, but Vista has finally pissed me off enough. So i went out and purchased a new XP Home SP2 CD for my Acer Aspire 5100 I've heard some issues with installing XP over vista, some say it can be done, others say it doesn't work, also I've heard that sometimes there is an issue with SATA drives being not seen, and having to load a driver before installation. I've run the live CD of Ubuntu 6.10 on it earlier, and was surprised everything worked except the card reader and wifi (however there is a fix for the latter) I was wondering if it would be best to let Ubuntu completely format and install itself on the drive, then go back in and install XP, or go and try installing xp directly without removing Vista. I've also gotten all the XP drivers for the Aspire 5100, Any idea what i should do? Ryan
So you left Vista and went to XP Home instead of Pro? :110: You should definitely reformat everything. There's no reason to keep anything related to Vista or install XP on top of it, especially when you have the XP drivers. Why not reformat & create 2 partitions with the XP disc, then install Ubuntu into the second unformatted partition?
Always best to install windows then linux - Linux expects to have to go on 2nd, whereas windows rarely plays nicely. If you trust ubuntus partitioning then install windows on all the drive and let ubuntu do its thing, otherwise just reserve a bit of space as unformatted in the xp install.
Just boot off the CD. format the C: partition (not the backup incase you ever want to go back to vista) and then install. Good luck finding the drivers. Actually, look for the xp drivers first, save them on cd, then format and install xp.
yea, thankfully Acer had all the drivers i needed on their site for WinXP....i made sure of that before i even thought of that. Right now, the drive is partitioned into two segments, C drive and the backup. Both are roughly 78 gigs in size. What i was thinking was that i could install XP onto the normal C drive, while keeping the backup intact (where my files are also stored too) and then either resize the C drive, or perhaps resize the backup to put linux on the box as well. I think that would work, correct?
