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Seems to be? Why? You seem to be a condecending prick...

It's pretty simple. The guy WANTS to install XP and is asking for help to get it done but 90% of the responses are just to make fun of him and tell him he really wants something else. Frankly his only mistake is asking here for help except for the few who actually tried to help him...
What the hell is the difference to anyone what he does with his time???

Well, if the computers BIOS does now allow to boot from other sources than from hard drive by hitting F8, then it's very likely being diabled in BIOS settings.

Does hitting F2 let him get into the BIOS Settings menu? If "yes" there must be some kind of menu to "activate" some possible boot devices.

At least on my computer this is the case. In my BIOS i'm able to restrict the availability of boot devices.

Hopefully i understood the problem right, and this will get him further.


... but i still discourage installing XP again.

The only ones right now I can get out of my hat being a real pain in the arse to do something with are those with pre installed OS directly with manufacturer own install CD (HP for example) and laptops.
Even then with simple tools you can perfectly physically format whatever HD and install whatever you want, it's just a little bit tricky some times but you need base understanding/knowledge about hardware/bios and patience.

In OP's case, and reading his question, seems he should ask some friends around him to do this.
Can you get rid od win8? -yes
Can you install XP instead-yes
Can you partition and install 2 different OS?-yes
Can you use some feature to let you choose which one to boot? -probably, Win8 seems a bit different from my previous versions for this but there's always a more or less tricky workaround.

If you don't know what you're doing, just don't.

Oh goes! The start menu changed. The sky is falling, this is the end of the world!

You know I agree that it is less useful on touch devices but stop acting like a moron. There are good feature enhancements and perf improvements in win8. Just install one of the free or cheap 3rd party programs that restore the start menu

Yep, DL ClassicSHell 3.6.5 seem way too hard...

Tsk tsk tsk

This is not about just getting 2 fps more in games. This is about an OS (Windows 8) that is the most secured operation system in the world. And it's about an operation system that supports xx amount of cores.

There is so many things with the new Windows 8 operation system that takes advantages over the new hardware out in the market today.

Do you see Windows XP use SSD in the most optimal way?

Do you see that the Windows XP supports 4 cores or more fully out?

Do you see Windows XP to just restart a driver if a driver crash without crashing the whole computer with a blue screen rather than just restart the driver on the fly like Windows 7 and Windows 8 does?

Do you see how slow Windows XP is compared to Windows 8?

Do you see how much lesser secure a 12 years old operation system is over an operation system that is from 2012?

I bought the Samsung 9-series NP900X4C-A01SE laptop with Windows 7. Because of that, i took the advantage to buy Windows 8 Pro legally for the whole 22 dollars.

And, who really needs the start menu nowdays?

If you quicly want to restart your Windows 8 OS, then just press ALT + F4. If you want to use the Run command, then just press Windows button + R.

When you have used Windows 8 for some days, you will finally realize why on earth you wouldn't be using Windows 8 from the start.

I REALLY loved Windows 7. But after using Windows 8 for some months now, i wont miss Windows 7 at all.

EDIT: When it comes to running Windows 8 on normal computers, then it might be a bit different from running Windows 8 on a laptop.

No one supports Winxp anymore, your new system will not have drivers for the hardware to work so you will still have a broken computer, you will not even be able to finish set up because set up will not see your hardware.

Win8 takes a bit of getting used to but once you figure out how it works it is a better system, you can also get programs to give it the old feeling if your like me and can not stand the build in mail features. It boots into windows in seconds, shuts down in seconds, it loads everything almost instantly, it is so much faster.

I think you just need to give Win8 a solid try, btw,to get eve working on win8 i had to update all the drivers and make sure i had flash installed, running multiple accounts of eve is not an issue and is a lot smoother then win xp ever was at this.

Too late, you did that when you purchased a new computer.

p.s. hope you didn't purchase more than 4 gigs of ram because XP will not read any more than that.

at bootup, spamming F10 in post will bring up BIOS. find boot priority, then set it to cd-rom for the XP disc.

problem:

windows 8 manages multiple core CPUs the best... Windows 7 has some of the same features as 8, but only as a result of back-porting windows 8 CPU management into windows 7. if you take a new processor and stick windows XP on it, you risk under-utilizing your CPU cores, if at all.

it's not a simple mult-core issue, either. Windows 8 is the first windows OS to recognize the paired nature of some CPUs. these CPUs have multiple cores that need to be managed a certain way, in pairs. instead of cores 1-8, they're paired 1+2, 3+4, 5+6, 7+8.

this is the case with my computer and CPU. Windows 7 was sketchy, Windows 8 is great... XP would not work at all.

I don't like what they've done with the windows key, but i deal with it



that, too. Windows 7 limited me to 8 Gigs. I obtained Win 8 pro through the microsoft alliance as a student (dreamspark), and now run 32 Gigs of RAM.

Lets just put it this way. Ignoring piracy the debate is quite simple:

Windows 8 is not worth the hundreds of dollars you have to spend on it if you already have windows 7.