I've just installed XP Pro over Vista on a Toshiba laptop (Satellite Pro L40) and the only problem was that XP Pro doesn't come with Serial ATA drivers and you can only install them via a floppy drive don't own one, don't want one!

Googling seems to suggest that your Asus has a Serial ATA drive, so you will have the same problem. I managed a workaround by creating an unattended install disk with nLite (http://www.nliteos.com/) and including the Serial ATA drivers in the build. I've played around with manually creating unattended install disks for XP before, but this takes a fair bit of fiddling around and nLite seems to do a great job.

Also ckeck out http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/1/ if you're interested in unattended installs; has saved me many weekends.

My experience with Vista so far, is that like so many upgrades in the past, MS have moved things around just enough so that I can't find what I'm looking for, or fix any problems that I have. Stick wih XP Pro; SP2 seems fairly stable (for an MS OS anyway!) and I believe SP3 should be with us soon.

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