11 Responses to “Dell Inspiron 1721 Notebook - Rollback from Vista to XP”

1. pingback: Posted: Mar 31st, 2008 at 8:03 am

   1 Dell Inspiron 1721 Notebook - Rollback from Vista to XP · Buwin Technology [...] Alec Saunders .LOG wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt [...] Reply to this comment.

2. freeman Posted: Apr 2nd, 2008 at 11:48 pm

   2 OMG I hate Vista. I really hate it. I think I have 10 or 12 hours into just trying to wrestle control of it and in watching my hard drive spin for 5 minutes at a time when when I make a big change it doesn’t like. I have an Inspiron 1721 and all I really want to dual boot Debian, where I will spend 90% of my time. Maybe I should do as described. I have an XP Pro disk. But I think I will be loosing a lot of this special multimedia software that is probably worthless. Did you read in Ars Technica where 4 M$ VPs rolled their machines back to XP? – freeman Reply to this comment.

3. Garret Byrne Posted: Apr 5th, 2008 at 8:11 am

   3 Hi, i had a query with the below link. It’s about installing XP on Dell Inspiron 1721, now in the link it doesn’t say how they got the XP Pro SP2 disk to see the harddrive on the dell laptop, i’m having that problem at the moment could you please ask who ever posted the guide to contact me with the answer, thank you.. Reply to this comment.

4. Doug Posted: Apr 5th, 2008 at 2:39 pm

   4 Hi, i had a query with the below link. It’s about installing XP on Dell Inspiron 1721, now in the link it doesn’t say how they got the XP Pro SP2 disk to see the harddrive on the dell laptop, i’m having that problem at the moment could you please ask who ever posted the guide to contact me with the answer, thank you.. Hi, my name is Doug and I am the Senior Tech for Schrock Innovaitons. To answer your question, in the bios you will need to select ‘RAID/ATA’ option. Then you want to make sure AHCI mode is selected. Close out of the bios, saving setting and reboot. You should be able to install XP as if you were on IDE drive with no extra drivers needed. The laptop we have worked on was already in this mode. Most desktops from dell are in this mode from the factory unless the ‘RAID/SATA’ option is selected. It may have been in your case. Good luck and let us know how it goes. Doug Senior Technician Schrock Innovations Reply to this comment.

5. Garret Byrne Posted: Apr 5th, 2008 at 10:15 pm

   5 Hi Doug, thanks very much for getting back to me, In regards to the bios part i checked it out and the only thing in relation to SATA is ” RAID AutoDetect / ATA - RAID On” I’ve selected “RAID AutoDetect / ATA” but as for AHCI Mode i can’t see it anywhere in my Bios. I have A06 Updated from A05 but even then didn’t see AHCI Mode? Is there anything else i can do.. Knowing me i got the only Dell Inspiron 1721 that hasn’t got those options, lol. My specs are AMD Turion 64X2 TL-60 (2.00 GHz) 2 GB Ram 320 GB ( 2X 160GB HDD’s) 17″ Widescreen Display And Vista (Shit), lol Well you already knew that.. Even on the website i downloaded the drivers for the RAID part and tried to merge them into WinXP with no luck i’m sure i’m missing something. Cheers Reply to this comment.

6. Garret Byrne Posted: Apr 6th, 2008 at 12:33 am

   6 I’ve done it, finally, lol.. Turns out theres a program that runs after the bios called RAID, you need to go in there by Ctrl + f and removing both RAID settings. Then your XP disk will see your hdd.. WARNING - if you do this you will loose anything on your harddrive, so make sure you back up. Well good luck and enjoy XP. Which i’m typing on now, lol Reply to this comment.

7. freeman Posted: Apr 6th, 2008 at 2:17 am

   7 RAID is such a bad idea for the average home computer user. And worse for a the average laptop. With recovery schemes and backups to huge usb drives, who needs a cheap version of a confusing system that can be downright catastrophic if it goes wrong. Reply to this comment.

8. Doug Posted: Apr 7th, 2008 at 10:22 am

   8 Excellent. That was going to be my next suggestion. It appears that the raid option had been selected and was requiring you to set up raid. That wasn’t even an option for us here in the shop. But then again this notebook has never been tried to be re installed either. We saw it as it came directly from Dell. We may just have been fortunate that it did. Thanks for the input. Doug Reply to this comment.

9. pingback: Posted: Apr 13th, 2008 at 2:06 am

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10. Reinaldo Posted: May 9th, 2008 at 7:58 am

    10 URGENT HELP ANYONE! I happened to roll back my Inspiron 1721 from Vista to XP. Besides the numerous troubles I experienced trying to get the ******* Vista out I ended up with and acceptable XP setup. However my SoundBlaster card is not working and over one dozen drivers I have tried give either a “no device found” or “Your system is not compatible with this driver” message. I also ocassionally find difficulties to connected to the web and need to reinstall netcard, modem USB drivers. Is there any way to have XP recognize my SB? or is there any way to make the “Vista hidden ghost” release the grip it’s got on my machine? I’ve been months trying to solve this to no avail and Dell refuses to support any XP related issue on the 1721. Only Vista. Any help would be greatly appreciated to reinaldo.martinez at gmail dot com. Reply to this comment.

11. Doug Posted: May 9th, 2008 at 5:09 pm

    11 Have you gone directly to the Creative Website for the driver. http://us.creative.com/ Do the drivers work for your Network Card and USB’s and then they seem to malfuntion and do you need to reinstall them all over again. You could be experiencing a hardware problem as well. URGENT HELP ANYONE! I happened to roll back my Inspiron 1721 from Vista to XP. Besides the numerous troubles I experienced trying to get the ******* Vista out I ended up with and acceptable XP setup. However my SoundBlaster card is not working and over one dozen drivers I have tried give either a “no device found” or “Your system is not compatible with this driver” message. I also ocassionally find difficulties to connected to the web and need to reinstall netcard, modem USB drivers. Is there any way to have XP recognize my SB? or is there any way to make the “Vista hidden ghost” release the grip it’s got on my machine? I’ve been months trying to solve this to no avail and Dell refuses to support any XP related issue on the 1721. Only Vista. Any help would be greatly appreciated to reinaldo.martinez at gmail dot com. Reply to this comment.

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