
Simply boot up any XP setup media and install XP into different partition or hard drive than the Vista installation. It’s by far the easier and best method to run XP instead of Vista if you have another partition or hard disk. But if you decide to downgrade from Vista to install XP, there is also a simple guideline that you can observe to ensure that the migration goes smoothly.

There’re actually few options available instead of completely uninstall Vista as listed below. XP will treat Vista as ‘superior’ operating system and refuse to install over it. You can’t simply insert the XP installation CD media into the CD-ROM drive and hope to ‘upgrade’ and replace the Vista with Windows XP usual install routine because Vista won’t allow it to be overwritten. There is no direct path to downgrade Vista to XP.


Windows Vista sucks? Or simply don’t like Vista? If you’re thinking to downgrade your Vista system to run on Windows XP, it’s not as easy as you think.
