You would need to check with Gateway to see if they have made Windows XP
drivers available for that computer. If not it might still be possible to
discover and find all the drivers you need but not something that the faint
of heart would want to try.

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"Helix" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
news:fec89db811b28d7367c9e64b18f1fc08@nntp-gateway.com...[color=blue]
>
> Well I had my XP disk with me, and i recently bought a gateway computer
> that had vista preinstalled on it, Vista is working fine, but i still
> prefer XP. Now yesterday, I created a partition (my first time doing it,
> and I think I messed it up) because when i installed XP Pro on it, my
> computer would just not boot into vista. When XP was installed, i went
> into My computer and saw that my Primary drive still had all the vista
> files on it, but my computer just wouldnt boot into it no matter how
> hard i tried.
>
> So Now i have XP on my computer, and it doesnt recognize a whole bunch
> of drivers, like Ethernet controller and my display driver VGA. So
> finally i got sick of it and did a full factory recovery, but i noticed
> that XP was working fine except all the drivers, now I want to keep xp
> on there, but its pointless if it doesnt install some of the drivers.
> Like i cant get on the internet because it couldnt install the ethernet
> controller [ I dont know where these drivers are available] , so how can
> i get those drivers and have XP work on my computer?
>
>
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> Helix[/color]