I have Vista if i purchase a new hard drive will i be able to install XP?

Ok, I am fearing that my hard drive is going to break soon as it has this strange clicking noise coming from it anyway.. after a year of using Vista i have decided that XP is alot better and that if i could i would use it again... in the case that my hard drive does go will i be able to install Windows XP onto the new drive or will i have to install Vista again? thanks to all who reply.

Tom.

I have Vista if i purchase a new hard drive will i be able to install XP?hp

You can install with XP but you may have difficulty to find drivers for XP since drivers for XP %26 Vista are incompatible %26 the hardware manufacturer doesn't always have both drivers for XP and Vista

I have Vista if i purchase a new hard drive will i be able to install XP?mcaffee

why wait untill it goes you can install xp now if you have the disk
You can try, but from what I am aware you will get nothing but grief. Vista over XP ok. XP over Vista no way.
If your new HDD is PATA/IDE, then there should be no problems installing XP.

If it is SATA, then things become a bit more complicated. You may need to have your motherboard's SATA drivers on a floppy disk. The basic procedure is here:

http://www.mysuperpc.com/build/pc_sata_i...

But some of the details may be different depending on your motherboard.
Yes you can put xp on it mate but be aware that the following items might not work. Graphics card, sound card ethernet board. My mate bought an acer pc from pc world but he didn't like vista so i put him xp on and then he had to buy the cards mentioned mate. Good Luck.
yes you can install XP on Either of the drives old or new, for the old one u'll need to go into the bios at start up and select boot from CD, this will wipe Vista off the system, at this stage you must have the XP disc in the drive.. good luck
yes just load the xp disk and go from there,, you may need to update drivers for your comp,,

all vista info is on hd drive as operating system,,

new hd drive , new operating system
i wouldn't risk it if your computer is built for vista