No.
you must reformat the drive XP is on-Then install 2000 as a new OS. Because it is a downgrade-not reformatting the drive will cause XP to not allow the downgrade.
Downgrade rights are permanent.
No. Windows XP is a downgrade.
There is no way to downgrade from Windows XP to Windows 98 without formatting.
Only Professional versions of Windows come with downgrade rights. Otherwise, you are only entitled to downgrade if you own a copy of Windows ME. In this day and age, downgrading to ME is a seriously bad idea, anyway.
Downgrade it, you can use a Windows XP install disk to undo the Windows 7 one.
You can not simply downgrade to Windows XP from Windows Vista. If you want to completely remove Windows Vista in favor of XP, you will have to format the hard drive and reinstall the OS from scratch. Windows XP will not install on top of an existing Vista installation.
If you have Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, or Ultimate you can install Windows XP Mode. Or if you want to downgrade you can do a clean install of Windows XP with an installation disk.
It is not recommended that you downgrade. Were you to downgrade, you would just insert the 98 install disk and format over XP or maybe make a partition. But instead, you should download VirtualBox onto XP and install Windows 98 within VirtualBox as a virtual guest computer.
You would need to buy Windows XP and install it on your hard drive to replace Windows 7. However there are programs that can run a simulator of XP while running Windows 7.
If you have a Toshiba laptop and are wanting to downgrade your operating system to Windows XP, that is going to take a bit of work to accomplish. You can check out the directions to do so on ehow tech. They will help you in your quest to downgrade your laptop operating system.
You would have to format the hard-drive, and do a fresh install of Windows XP. You would also need to re-install all of your software - some of which may not work with XP (since XP is an old version of Windows)