# Downgrade from Vista -\> XP with out reformating **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [December 27, 2007, 11:11am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/downgrade-from-vista-xp-with-out-reformating/40855 "2007-12-27T11:11:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 11:11am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/downgrade-from-vista-xp-with-out-reformating/40855/1 "2007-12-27T11:11:27Z")
Any suggestions… ---
**Author:** ![Coveted\_Hilton](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/coveted_hilton/32/5191_2.png) [@Coveted\_Hilton](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Coveted_Hilton)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 11:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/downgrade-from-vista-xp-with-out-reformating/40855/2 "2007-12-27T11:18:30Z")
yeah i hate vista aswell, its CRAP. your only bet is to find all your drivers, for Xp for the machine you have, before you format. your going to have to format. ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 11:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/downgrade-from-vista-xp-with-out-reformating/40855/3 "2007-12-27T11:20:47Z")
I was pondering creating a new partition and installing it on to that… I think Vista lets you partition on the fly… ---
**Author:** ![tpgsr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tpgsr/32/7374_2.png) [@tpgsr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/tpgsr)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 11:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/downgrade-from-vista-xp-with-out-reformating/40855/4 "2007-12-27T11:28:14Z")
you can shrink the vista partition and install XP onto a new partition. here is a tutorial: [click](http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/install-windows-xp-on-your-pre-installed-windows-vista-computer/) ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 11:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/downgrade-from-vista-xp-with-out-reformating/40855/5 "2007-12-27T11:39:46Z")
> [@tpgsr](#): > > you can shrink the vista partition and install XP onto a new partition. > > here is a tutorial: [click](http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/install-windows-xp-on-your-pre-installed-windows-vista-computer/) Yea this is exactly what I wanted to do… Thanks… ---
**Author:** ![chino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bcef8e/32.png) [@chino](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/chino)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 11:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/downgrade-from-vista-xp-with-out-reformating/40855/6 "2007-12-27T11:41:38Z")
all i see in this thread are people too slow to figure out a new OS 😃 ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 11:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/downgrade-from-vista-xp-with-out-reformating/40855/7 "2007-12-27T11:46:14Z")
:lol: I will buy another computer to run Vista on after SP1 is officially released and I decide I want to put money into a good video card and a lot of ram. I also have some software that won’t run on Vista very well… ---
**Author:** ![MikeRi24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@MikeRi24](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MikeRi24)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 12:39pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/downgrade-from-vista-xp-with-out-reformating/40855/8 "2007-12-27T12:39:40Z")
my laptop came with Vista, and it crashed 3 times the first month I had it. I called Dell everytime because it pissed me off and all they could tell me was it was a software issue and there was nothing they could do about it. I re-formatted with XP and haven’t had a problem since. i decided to just completely re-format because that way everything left from Vista would be gone, i am not smart enough to figure out how to partition a hard drive without re-formatting, and the laptop was only a month old so i didnt have a ton of stuff on there, so saving it all to a 1 gig jump drive and then popping it back on after wasnt a huge deal. i would just reformat completely if you can. ---
**Author:** ![Nikuk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/nikuk/32/7254_2.png) [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 3:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/downgrade-from-vista-xp-with-out-reformating/40855/9 "2007-12-27T15:23:17Z")
lol, i bought 4gb of 800mhz ram for $100 on sale @ newegg about two weeks ago. :gotme: