Flinders wrote:

> I have an HP tablet, newly purchased, running Vista Premium care of
> the manufacturer. I upgraded this to Ultimate and loaded Microsoft
> Office 2007. Nothing else! It is a disappointingly unstable
> platform. I propose to buy a second hard drive, put the Vista on
> the shelf in the hope of a more reliable future. I have a copy of
> XP Pro with SP2. If I load this onto a clean drive will the tablet
> features work or not?

In addition to what the others already said:
There are *two* layers of problems:
(a) Getting XP TabletPC Edition installed in the machine;
(b) finding the additional drivers for your machine.

ad (a):
XP TabletPC Edition never was sold separately.
It always was bound to the machines.

Your copy of XP probably won't fit. (i.e.: you might not get the needed
TabletPC instruments installed).
With machines that came with XP it was possible to use any retail XP CD
with SP2 and install that using the product key on the XP sticker on the
machine. This did not work with OEM versions (other than those from the
manufacturer) and Volume Licence CDs because those would not accept the
necessary product key. Furthermore the existence of the directory
"CMPNENTS" on the CD is crucial.
IMHO the product key would be the main problem.

ad (b)
On addition to the "naked" TabletPC OS version you'd need additional
drivers fro the specific hardware built-in in your machine.
Most probably the hardware components differ from those used in earlier
series.
For some devices the drivers offered for Vista ob the HP download site
might fit. For other devices XP-drivers offered for other machines might
be used.
But the situation for certain will not be too easy. In the HP forums
there's tons of threads on "upgrading to XP" for HP notebooks which came
with Vista only. For most problems solutions were found. But things are
lot more complex with TabletPCs.

It would not hurt, however, to visit the said forums and search and ask
there. AFAICS "notebook - HP Compaq, Armada, EVO, LTE, Tablet PC"
http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/...35135+28353475
would the proper place.

HTH
Rainald