Roffen Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 (edited) My new Lenovo is a cute little machine, but it is spoiled by being infested by a Windows 10 installation.. So my idea is to replace the Win10 with WinXP. I tend to think that the Lenovo hardware should run XP without any problems. But I don't know. So, before I venture into terra incognito, are there things I should know that might msake me change my mind? I have enough hardware to build another XP machine but I wouuld enjoy being able to use the Lenovo instead. Edited April 8, 2019 by Roffen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 Generally speaking, DON'T. Only a very few, selected machines/motherboards built in the last - say - 5 years can use XP directly, Anyway post the EXACT model, "my new Lenovo" doesn't help in checkng if there is a possibility. jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roffen Posted April 8, 2019 Author Share Posted April 8, 2019 Specs of Lenovo tabletop machine: Type: 90GA003LMW R304CF20 P.family: Idea Centre 310S-081AP SSD 128GB RAM: 4G OS: Win 10 Home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ojt_1998 Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 At best you could probably install Windows 7 but there is not much hope for XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alacran Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 (edited) @Roffen Go to the page of your PC manufacturer, find your model and check what drivers they have available for each OS, this way you will see what OSs can be installed on that machine. But just to make things a little better, without installing another OS, Download and install Classic Shell 4.3.1: http://www.classicshell.net/ Also this commands (run them as admin) may be usefull for you (valid from 7 to 10), see attached 7zip file. alacran Usefull commands.7z Edited April 8, 2019 by alacran Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAVERICKS CHOICE Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 If you love XP just use it in a VM like Virtual Box. I do this to run old programs frequently. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erpdude8 Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 although MS ended support for XP POSReady 2009 on April 9, 2019 (for those XP users who have used the posready reg hack) - no more new posready updates will be made btw, Lenovo has only Win10 downloads for OP's Lenovo desktop PC (it's a 310s-08iap), no Win7 downloads available Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windows 2000 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 (edited) On 4/8/2019 at 4:44 PM, Roffen said: Specs of Lenovo tabletop machine: Type: 90GA003LMW R304CF20 P.family: Idea Centre 310S-081AP SSD 128GB RAM: 4G OS: Win 10 Home What is the processor? EDIT: I do not think that it is possible to run Windows XP on that machine. You could try, but you probably would have to put in quite the effort and money to get the OS working correctly. Moreover, I think that you might need to get an external GPU, because I am not aware of there being drivers for that PC's graphics card for XP. Edited April 25, 2019 by Windows 2000 Found the processor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roffen Posted April 26, 2019 Author Share Posted April 26, 2019 Not quite on-topic, but anyway, I find it practical to ask if anyone can help me access the SSD in my Lenovo. I once was able to locate the drive and open it, but since that time I have never been able to find the SSD disk again. I want to try partitioning the disk and install Win 7 or Win XP on one partition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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