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I just bought a new gateway computer. It has vista home premium on it. Vista

keeps freezing up for long periods. Is there a way to put XP on a new

partition? I tried to remove vista with the XP disk but it won't let me.

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    I just bought a new gateway computer. It has vista home premium on it. Vista

    keeps freezing up for long periods. Is there a way to put XP on a new

    partition? I tried to remove vista with the XP disk but it won't let me.

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    If Vista is freezing a lot, put the details of your computer's hardware,

    software and anti-virus on here. You will get helpful answers.

     

    If , instead, you wish to install XP over Vista, change your boot menu in

    bios to start with your CD Drive, insert your XP CD in the Drive, and reboot.

     

    During the setup you can delete the partion that Vista is on, formatt your

    drive, then install XP

     

    "Diesel" wrote:

    > I just bought a new gateway computer. It has vista home premium on it. Vista

    > keeps freezing up for long periods. Is there a way to put XP on a new

    > partition? I tried to remove vista with the XP disk but it won't let me.

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    If Vista is freezing a lot, put the details of your computer's hardware,

    software and anti-virus on here. You will get helpful answers.

     

    If , instead, you wish to install XP over Vista, change your boot menu in

    bios to start with your CD Drive, insert your XP CD in the Drive, and reboot.

     

    During the setup you can delete the partion that Vista is on, formatt your

    drive, then install XP

     

    "Diesel" wrote:

    > I just bought a new gateway computer. It has vista home premium on it. Vista

    > keeps freezing up for long periods. Is there a way to put XP on a new

    > partition? I tried to remove vista with the XP disk but it won't let me.

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    Gateway gm5478

    2.4gh quadcore Q6600

    nvidia 8500gt 256mb

    vista home premium

    McAffee security

    It freezes with mostly games, especialy online game. But it has also done it

    while watching movies. When i tried to install xp it said a error accured and

    windos was shut down. Is there a way to just install xp to the partition I

    made?

     

    "Mick Murphy" wrote:

    > If Vista is freezing a lot, put the details of your computer's hardware,

    > software and anti-virus on here. You will get helpful answers.

    >

    > If , instead, you wish to install XP over Vista, change your boot menu in

    > bios to start with your CD Drive, insert your XP CD in the Drive, and reboot.

    >

    > During the setup you can delete the partion that Vista is on, formatt your

    > drive, then install XP

    >

    > "Diesel" wrote:

    >

    > > I just bought a new gateway computer. It has vista home premium on it. Vista

    > > keeps freezing up for long periods. Is there a way to put XP on a new

    > > partition? I tried to remove vista with the XP disk but it won't let me.

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    Gateway gm5478

    2.4gh quadcore Q6600

    nvidia 8500gt 256mb

    vista home premium

    McAffee security

    It freezes with mostly games, especialy online game. But it has also done it

    while watching movies. When i tried to install xp it said a error accured and

    windos was shut down. Is there a way to just install xp to the partition I

    made?

     

    "Mick Murphy" wrote:

    > If Vista is freezing a lot, put the details of your computer's hardware,

    > software and anti-virus on here. You will get helpful answers.

    >

    > If , instead, you wish to install XP over Vista, change your boot menu in

    > bios to start with your CD Drive, insert your XP CD in the Drive, and reboot.

    >

    > During the setup you can delete the partion that Vista is on, formatt your

    > drive, then install XP

    >

    > "Diesel" wrote:

    >

    > > I just bought a new gateway computer. It has vista home premium on it. Vista

    > > keeps freezing up for long periods. Is there a way to put XP on a new

    > > partition? I tried to remove vista with the XP disk but it won't let me.

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    If the partition you made is a primary partition, I would make it active.

    You should delete and recreate the partition and format it and make it

    active when you select where to install XP or using diskpart in Recovery

    Console since you don't say how you created the new partition. NTFS is

    different between Vista and XP. If you want to continue to use Vista, you

    can change the active partition back to the Vista partition and using

    EasyBCD or VistaBootPro, you can add the XP to the Vista boot process. If

    you have a BIOS where it is easy to select the boot drive at boot time, you

    may just select which system to boot to there.

    You also don't say where you got XP, so you may have license or activation

    problems.

     

    "Diesel" <Diesel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

    news:1A4054AD-213F-492A-ABC4-8C05B7C83A82@microsoft.com...

    > Gateway gm5478

    > 2.4gh quadcore Q6600

    > nvidia 8500gt 256mb

    > vista home premium

    > McAffee security

    > It freezes with mostly games, especialy online game. But it has also done

    > it

    > while watching movies. When i tried to install xp it said a error accured

    > and

    > windos was shut down. Is there a way to just install xp to the partition I

    > made?

    >

    > "Mick Murphy" wrote:

    >

    >> If Vista is freezing a lot, put the details of your computer's hardware,

    >> software and anti-virus on here. You will get helpful answers.

    >>

    >> If , instead, you wish to install XP over Vista, change your boot menu in

    >> bios to start with your CD Drive, insert your XP CD in the Drive, and

    >> reboot.

    >>

    >> During the setup you can delete the partion that Vista is on, formatt

    >> your

    >> drive, then install XP

    >>

    >> "Diesel" wrote:

    >>

    >> > I just bought a new gateway computer. It has vista home premium on it.

    >> > Vista

    >> > keeps freezing up for long periods. Is there a way to put XP on a new

    >> > partition? I tried to remove vista with the XP disk but it won't let

    >> > me.

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    If the partition you made is a primary partition, I would make it active.

    You should delete and recreate the partition and format it and make it

    active when you select where to install XP or using diskpart in Recovery

    Console since you don't say how you created the new partition. NTFS is

    different between Vista and XP. If you want to continue to use Vista, you

    can change the active partition back to the Vista partition and using

    EasyBCD or VistaBootPro, you can add the XP to the Vista boot process. If

    you have a BIOS where it is easy to select the boot drive at boot time, you

    may just select which system to boot to there.

    You also don't say where you got XP, so you may have license or activation

    problems.

     

    "Diesel" <Diesel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

    news:1A4054AD-213F-492A-ABC4-8C05B7C83A82@microsoft.com...

    > Gateway gm5478

    > 2.4gh quadcore Q6600

    > nvidia 8500gt 256mb

    > vista home premium

    > McAffee security

    > It freezes with mostly games, especialy online game. But it has also done

    > it

    > while watching movies. When i tried to install xp it said a error accured

    > and

    > windos was shut down. Is there a way to just install xp to the partition I

    > made?

    >

    > "Mick Murphy" wrote:

    >

    >> If Vista is freezing a lot, put the details of your computer's hardware,

    >> software and anti-virus on here. You will get helpful answers.

    >>

    >> If , instead, you wish to install XP over Vista, change your boot menu in

    >> bios to start with your CD Drive, insert your XP CD in the Drive, and

    >> reboot.

    >>

    >> During the setup you can delete the partion that Vista is on, formatt

    >> your

    >> drive, then install XP

    >>

    >> "Diesel" wrote:

    >>

    >> > I just bought a new gateway computer. It has vista home premium on it.

    >> > Vista

    >> > keeps freezing up for long periods. Is there a way to put XP on a new

    >> > partition? I tried to remove vista with the XP disk but it won't let

    >> > me.

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    With dual booting you install the older system first, in this case XP.

     

    How much RAM do you have? Vista requires 1 Gig, and with you playing games

    I would say that you need a minimum of 2 Gigs of Ram.

     

    Also, depending on the games, 256 MBs Graphics might not be enough.

     

    And thirdly, I think a few posters have reported problems with your

    anti-virus in vista.

     

    "Diesel" wrote:

    > Gateway gm5478

    > 2.4gh quadcore Q6600

    > nvidia 8500gt 256mb

    > vista home premium

    > McAffee security

    > It freezes with mostly games, especialy online game. But it has also done it

    > while watching movies. When i tried to install xp it said a error accured and

    > windos was shut down. Is there a way to just install xp to the partition I

    > made?

    >

    > "Mick Murphy" wrote:

    >

    > > If Vista is freezing a lot, put the details of your computer's hardware,

    > > software and anti-virus on here. You will get helpful answers.

    > >

    > > If , instead, you wish to install XP over Vista, change your boot menu in

    > > bios to start with your CD Drive, insert your XP CD in the Drive, and reboot.

    > >

    > > During the setup you can delete the partion that Vista is on, formatt your

    > > drive, then install XP

    > >

    > > "Diesel" wrote:

    > >

    > > > I just bought a new gateway computer. It has vista home premium on it. Vista

    > > > keeps freezing up for long periods. Is there a way to put XP on a new

    > > > partition? I tried to remove vista with the XP disk but it won't let me.

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    With dual booting you install the older system first, in this case XP.

     

    How much RAM do you have? Vista requires 1 Gig, and with you playing games

    I would say that you need a minimum of 2 Gigs of Ram.

     

    Also, depending on the games, 256 MBs Graphics might not be enough.

     

    And thirdly, I think a few posters have reported problems with your

    anti-virus in vista.

     

    "Diesel" wrote:

    > Gateway gm5478

    > 2.4gh quadcore Q6600

    > nvidia 8500gt 256mb

    > vista home premium

    > McAffee security

    > It freezes with mostly games, especialy online game. But it has also done it

    > while watching movies. When i tried to install xp it said a error accured and

    > windos was shut down. Is there a way to just install xp to the partition I

    > made?

    >

    > "Mick Murphy" wrote:

    >

    > > If Vista is freezing a lot, put the details of your computer's hardware,

    > > software and anti-virus on here. You will get helpful answers.

    > >

    > > If , instead, you wish to install XP over Vista, change your boot menu in

    > > bios to start with your CD Drive, insert your XP CD in the Drive, and reboot.

    > >

    > > During the setup you can delete the partion that Vista is on, formatt your

    > > drive, then install XP

    > >

    > > "Diesel" wrote:

    > >

    > > > I just bought a new gateway computer. It has vista home premium on it. Vista

    > > > keeps freezing up for long periods. Is there a way to put XP on a new

    > > > partition? I tried to remove vista with the XP disk but it won't let me.

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    Diesel wrote:

    > I just bought a new gateway computer. It has vista home premium on it. Vista

    > keeps freezing up for long periods.

     

     

    What did Gateway support have to say when you contacted them for

    warranty support on this new computer? Until they fix the defective

    hardware, any OS is likely to freeze up.

     

    > Is there a way to put XP on a new

    > partition? I tried to remove vista with the XP disk but it won't let me.

     

    You'd have to use a 3rd party partition and boot manager, unless you're

    willing to void your (so far unused) warranty and service agreements by

    removing Vista completely.

     

     

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    Diesel wrote:

    > I just bought a new gateway computer. It has vista home premium on it. Vista

    > keeps freezing up for long periods.

     

     

    What did Gateway support have to say when you contacted them for

    warranty support on this new computer? Until they fix the defective

    hardware, any OS is likely to freeze up.

     

    > Is there a way to put XP on a new

    > partition? I tried to remove vista with the XP disk but it won't let me.

     

    You'd have to use a 3rd party partition and boot manager, unless you're

    willing to void your (so far unused) warranty and service agreements by

    removing Vista completely.

     

     

    --

     

    Bruce Chambers

     

    Help us help you:

    http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

    http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

     

    They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary

    safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin

     

    Many people would rather die than think in fact, most do. -Bertrand Russell

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