[Land-speed] OT: A Win XP Pro vs Vista Question...

Doug Odom dlodom at charter.net
Wed Dec 10 12:03:39 MST 2008


Mayf, There is a Yahoo group winxphelp that is full of computer geeks that 
love to answer these questions. I think if he went there and asked he could 
get the best way to do things.
Doug Odom in big ditch were its sunny and 71 today.


Subject: [Land-speed] OT: A Win XP Pro vs Vista Question...


> One of our local Pahrump associates has something he want to do with his 
> laptop. And that is, dump VISTA and install XP Pro. But, he has a fear. He 
> has a 200GB hard drive with stuff on it in the laptop and he is concerned 
> that when he loads the XP Pro over Vista that XP won't recognize the drive 
> size and he will have lost his data / information.  Have any of you done 
> this and if so, results? What should I pass along to him about doing this? 
> I suggested that he transfer all the info to a USB external drive before 
> messing with the installed drive.
>
> Hhhheeeeellllllppppppp!
>
> mayf


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