[zaibatsu2000]

Hello folks,

I bought a new Acer Aspire 5920G last week and it came installed with Windows Vista Home Premium OEM version. First of all, I would like to tell you guys that it works great and I am happy with the "notebook".
What I actually mean is that I am only happy with the notenook and not the OS. Seriously, Vista sucks! Its not compatible with softwares, its memory-hungry, it uses like 700MB of RAM continuously and uses over 6GB for installation. People are going for compact things and MS is going the other way.

Well, let me come down to the problem. I wanted to downgrade Vista to XP so I tried the original way by inserting a bootable disc and booting with it. The setup stopped right before its supposed to display the partitioning options saying that it did not detect the HDD. Therefore, I read up the articles on the internet which suggested that a slipstreamed disc would help as I do not have a floppy drive. I did as the guide said and was able to continue with the setup.

The setup brought up the partition information and I deleted all the partitions on my HDD and created a new partition with sufficient space. The setup continued and installed the initial files. It then reboots the OS and instead of running the setup again, asks me to chose from one of the following:

Run windows normally
Safe mode
Safe mode with networking
Safe mode with (something)
Last best known configuration

Now, no matter what I chose, it gives that scary blue screen that windows 98 always used to show up. It then restarts by itself and gives me the above menu again.

So can you experts please help me out and tell me how to get Windows XP running on my notebook. Also, can you guys tell me if all the drivers are compatible with Windows XP.