After installing Windows 7 beta, I want to go back to XP. How? -

After installing Windows 7 beta and liking it, I tried to run a game off the windows.old folder and I noticed it ran very slow at max settings. The game is Left 4 Dead and I can run it on xp with no lag but windows 7 is very slow with it. Its only 1 game it runs slow with but I would like to go back to xp till the beta becomes the real thing. How do I do that? I partitioned my hard drive so I could experiment with windows 7 but I want to go back only because the beta still needs work. There is alot of issues that I have been running into(drivers for windows 7 are near impossible to find) like my 5.1 surround sound doesnt fully work in most games I play, I get graphical issues and everything else so I want to just wait till the real windows 7 comes out. How do I go back to xp?

If you used dual boot to boot to xp or windows 7, then just choose windowx xp on the list. Or delete the partition. Insert your windows xp disk and reboot (you must set your bios to boot from disk). There will be an option wherein you can delete partitions, delete the partition where you installed windows 7 and reboot your computer.

just use a formatting tool like gparted live cd. download the iso, burn it to a cd, then boot your machine with it in. format the hard disk then reboot with your xp install cd and it will put xp back on.

Dig out your original XP disk and put it in the drive. Reboot the computer and Boot off of the XP disk. Follow the prompts and be sure to reformat the hard drive. Next time you play around with Beta operating systems, do it on a different hard drive. Remove the XP hard drive and install a new hard drive and install the O/S you are experimenting with on the new hard drive. Then when you want to go back to XP just put in the original HD.

hi there like motor cars you stay away from the 1st of the new model run, get the 2nd series where they have improved all the faults same with windows,you don t use it untill they fix all the bugs. flakes

Just boot off your Windows installation disc and follow the prompts to format and install Windows XP. If for some reason it refuses to install, just use Gparted or any linux disc and format the HDD first.