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Originally Posted by Unregistered  I'm about to buy an HP Pavilion DV6575us with Vista pre-installed. Instead of doing the dual boot thing, I want to wipe Vista completely and just run the machine with XP. I'm going to boot from XP and reformat the entire drive, thus getting rid of Vista as well as all those crap programs that HP loads on. Does anyone think I'll have a problem with this tactic?
Thanks in advance.
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If you go to the HP website and make sure that the drivers for the model laptop are available for Windows XP, then you should be just fine. This is crucial! Do not install XP only to find that there are no drivers available. Just search for "DV6575us drivers for Windows XP" on the HP site. If there are sound, wireless, graphics card, and other drivers free to download for your HP laptop, then I would download all of them, burn them onto a disc, install XP, and then once XP is on, load the drivers from the disc and install them. Unfortunately, if there are no drivers available, then XP cannot be used on the computer.