Mornin`
First of all may I apologize if I`m going over old ground but I need help with regard to loading xp pro onto a vista machine, in fact its an acer aspire 5735 laptop which came pre loaded with Vista home. I will attempt to be as clear as I can with my limited knowledge on the subject.
1. The laptop hard drive has been formatted. I have a generic xp pro disc which I have tried to use to load xp onto the laptop but get so far then the dreaded blue screen appears. I have looked on the internet for a solution and I believe that its to do with certain drivers and that it can be possible to use an xp disc that contains sp2. Unfortunately my xp disc does not contain sp2 so rendering it useless for the task in hand.
I have researched and found out about slip streaming a copy of xpsp2 into an xp operating system then burning this onto a disc which will do the job. Am I correct???
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I have, following instructions on the internet, got to the stage where I need to burn the disc but I have no burning software that will allow me to burn a bootable disc that is VERY simple to use and follow. I would be grateful if there is someone who could suggest perhaps free software or reasonably priced software that an idiot like me could follow to complete the task as far as making a bootable disc that will allow me to load windows xp pro onto the laptop.
2. If I am unable to get any further as far as the above is concerned would it be possible to load xp pro and sp2 onto another hard dive in an external enclosure on another computer then connect that hard drive to the laptop via a usb port and change the boot sequence in the bios so that the laptop boots from that copy of xp and then copy the entire disc to the laptop hard drive??? if so, will the laptop boot from that xp operating system copied to the laptop hard drive???
If none of the above are possible. Any suggestions???
Thanks in anticipation
Tich
