Hp Pavillion Dv2000

can anyone please tell me how to load win xp on a hp pavillion system that has vista as its default OS.

i guess the laptop has a SATA hard drive.

can any one please advice

Thanks.

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@Poster
windows XP has an enemy on your laptop its SATA  hehe
yea that's the bad boy that makes winxp not recognize u have a hard disk.
so installing winxp will be piece of cake if u disable SATA, but then again, HP in their "wisdom" have removed the option to disable SATA from the bios in most of their recent bios upgrades. i pray u have the option to disable SATA in your bios, if u don't u're pretty screwed.
but there's always a way  around screw ups.
if u don't have the option to disable SATA u do one of two things. its either u slipstream your winXP installation disc with the intel SATA drivers or u downgrade your bios.
i prefer slipstreamin, it ain't too simple though but its a working option for me. nothing as bad as downgrading your flash and ending up with a BSOD. i use nlite for slipstreaming. just google "slipstreaming windows XP CD" u should have good results to learn how to do it.