And prior to dumping Vista you have checked that your HW has drivers for
winxp havent you? Not all new large OEM PC's have drivers for xp where Vista
has been installed

"lengrass" <lengrass@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> The current OS is Vista Premium and I wish to install Win Xp Home. I have
> change the bios to boot from cd-dvd/hdd/disabled. Upon reboot and hit the
> 'enter key' Windows will do the setup. When asked to hit 'enter' to
> install
> the xp, I get a message that it cannot find the hdd. But the hdd is there
> as
> I can start Vista and do what ever I want. Vista in the pc is a complete
> working system, so there is no problem with the hdd.Any idea what is
> preventing the xp from been installed? Thanks for your help