Downgrade Windows® 7 to Windows® XP®

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If you are looking for the complete solution to downgrade  from Windows 7 trial version to Windows XP on your PC, then follow the easy 12-step resolution and you can easily restore Windows XP.

Just relax! iYogi is here to help. All you need to do is follow the easy steps as outlined on this page and you will be able to resolve the tech issue on your own.

Steps to downgrade windows 7 to xp

STEP 1. Open your Windows 7 drive (generally C drive) and make sure that you haven’t removed the Windows.old folder, which was created by Windows while installing Windows 7 on XP drive. Remember, without this folder you won’t be able to proceed further.

STEP 2. Now, check the size of Windows.old folder by right-clicking and then selecting properties. You need to make sure that Windows.old folder must be less than two times the amount of free hard drive space available on Windows 7 system drive (C drive). If the Windows.old folder size is two times larger, disable system restore utility and also use disk cleanup tool to get some free space.

STEP 3. Insert your Windows 7 installation disk into DVD-ROM and restart your system. Press any key when prompted to boot from DVD.

STEP 4. Choose your language, time, keyboard type and then click on Next button to continue.

STEP 5. In the Install Windows screen, click Repair your computer option to get System Recovery Options.

STEP 6. Now select your Windows 7 OS and note down your Windows 7 Drive letter before clicking on Next.

STEP 7. In the next window, click Command Prompt to start downgrading from Windows 7 to Windows XP.

STEP 8. At first you need to transfer all the data of your Windows 7 drive to a folder. So type the following commands one by one and then press enter after each command (here we’re assuming that “D” is your Windows 7 drive letter).

D:

Md Win7

Move Windows Win7\Windows

Move “Program Files” “Win7\Program Files”

Move Users Win7\Users

Attrib –h –s –r ProgramData

Move ProgramData Win7\ProgramData

Rd “Documents and Settings”

STEP 9. Next, you need to copy all the contents of Windows.old folder to the drive. Again, follow all the commands given below one by one and then press enter after each command.

move /y d:\Windows.old\Windows d:\

move /y “d:\Windows.old\Program Files” d:\

move /y “d:\Windows.old\Documents and Settings” d:\

STEP 10. Next, you need to restore the boot sector by typing the following command:

E:\boot\bootsect /nt52 d:

STEP 11. At last restore the boot.ini file by entering the following commands:

Attrib –h –s –r boot.ini.saved

Copy boot.ini.saved boot.ini

STEP 12. Now type Exit and restart your system to get back to Windows XP again.

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