Vista to XP on a 1520

[ElementalGT]

I know countless threads have been made on this subject, but...

I was wondering, are there any difficulties with uninstalling Vista and putting XP on my Inspiron 1520? Or is it a pretty straight forward process?

Thanks.

[adinu]

If you have all the drivers (which you should since Dell offers both XP and Vista on the 1520) then it's a very straight foward process like you said. Format, install XP then install the drivers.

[sinstoic]

I was wondering, are there any difficulties with uninstalling Vista and putting XP on my Inspiron 1520? Or is it a pretty straight forward process?

It is a straight forward process provided you have the XP installation disc and the required drivers. Backup any data before you install XP. Insert the XP installation disc, delete all partitions and create one or two primary partitions based on your requirements and install XP. Do you need anymore information? Do reply if this was useful!

[JellyGeo]

I just received my 1520 with the 160-Gb HDD - I left Vista on it after I un-installed the all of the junkware. Then I defragged Vista from command line ( defrag c: -w -v ) which took about 40 minutes. I used disk manager to shrink the C: partition after that and wound up with a 60-Gb partition. Then I booted a slip-streamed XP CD (with ICH8M drivers on it) and proceeded as the other posters have mentioned above. Good luck...

[sinstoic]

I just received my 1520 with the 160-Gb HDD - I left Vista on it after I un-installed the all of the junkware. Then I defragged Vista from command line ( defrag c: -w -v ) which took about 40 minutes. I used disk manager to shrink the C: partition after that and wound up with a 60-Gb partition. Then I booted a slip-streamed XP CD (with ICH8M drivers on it) and proceeded as the other posters have mentioned above. Good luck...

OP is talking about replacing Vista with XP!

[XDViPeR]

Vista is *almost* as good as XP, yeah sure here and there, there are some annoying features but you overcome them and make Vista run more XP. Just search the forums for some tips to speed up Vista, or do a clean format, it makes it much faster!

[Xonk]

I know countless threads have been made on this subject, but...

I was wondering, are there any difficulties with uninstalling Vista and putting XP on my Inspiron 1520? Or is it a pretty straight forward process?

Thanks.

The Inspiron 1520 has a MediaDirect button and associated software. MediaDirect requires that you use the MediaDirect 3.3 Installation CD to prepare your hard drive BEFORE you install the OS.

see this thread:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/show....php?p=2674584

and search the forums for posts on MediaDirect.