Hi There
It seems a lot of people want to do this.
The problem is that I have looked on HP site and the list of drivers for XP is very limited it only lists Keyboard, Mouse and Input Devices and software solutions, if you put in that your OS is vista for your model then the list is as long as your arm.
I think unfortunatlly you are going to be out of luck they don't seem to want to support XP on this laptop.

But anyway I would send HP an email to tech support and see if they can sort your drivers out but I don't think they will. Let us know how you get on.
Sorry I could not help.

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Thank you very much. I think that if many people ask about the same think at hp maybe they support XP for this model.... Everyone who has the same problem, send an email to hp, they sell this product and they must support it.

Need to format the hard drive then install

Dear all brothers i know there is a solution but i cant find the raid controller driver for dv 5 i know one guy he is down grading that model i asked him about that but he didnot tell me we have to ask from hp there is a solution why they are not helping us

I am currently following the instructions on this site:
http://www.getpcmemory.com/...

i Havnt finished yet - so I cannot say if it works or not... the only thing I know is that Vista doesnt function at all - so what could be worse...

//Q

Hello i have all so hp pavilion dv5 i downgrad for vista to xp
first of all i download the bios of xp and install it then downgrad it
it works

Hi all i have just downgraded this laptop the way to do it is download through a torent windows xp black burn the file it will be bootable cd reboot your system install from cd format your hard drive while installing and thats it of you go with xp { ps when installing from cd dont worry the screen goes blank at first for about 2-5mins while it gets the raid drivers installed } have 100% works