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[groovysoul Profile]

The Computer, an HP Pavilion a1720n came with Vista, so I don't have a disc of XP drivers. Any easy way to get started? If I could just get online from XP I imagine it would be easier to determine what I need.

Thanks for any help.

Jason

[yeshuas]

I hope I understand your question correctly, that you are trying to get XP working as a dual boot, but don't have the drivers for your machine that are made for XP is that correct?

How did you load XP if you don't have a disc?

[kd1966 Profile YIM]

It would be best to go to the Manuf. website while still in Vista and download the necessary XP drivers; saving them to a folder possibly on the XP partition you plan to install XP to.

[e to the x Profile]

Since you have XP installed already just create a folder where you will save your drivers and as KD said, boot into Vista and download the drivers to that folder. Then reboot to XP and install them from there.

[groovysoul Profile]

Thanks for the answers. I contacted HP chat support and the guy helped me pretty well with finding the drivers. (I have an old XP disc, my computer came with Vista, to answer yeshuas) It's still strange to me that HP only offers entire recovery disks and not any link to the specific drivers and the chat guy guided me to a lot of different sites of varying capacity. Has anyone else had similar experiences with HP tech support? Everyone is nice, but it seems more difficult than it should sometimes.

Now let's see if it all works!

I really appreciate the help.

Jason

[NT50 Profile]

Another user ran into this with HP computer with preinstalled Vista and no XP drivers. They downloaded and older model drivers and got it to work.