XP wont install (at least from official Microsoft volumes) on your modern computer, because it doesn't have SCSI drivers included to properly recognize your HDD drives.

You have two solutions:

1. Install Windows 7. Install is easy and all essential drivers are included.
2. Download SCSI driver for your motherboard, copy them on floppy (google what it is ) and choose them when loading XP installation. Alternatively you can try to make your custom XP bootable DVD with SCSI drivers included using Nlite tool.

But seriously, there is no reason to stay on XP.

FAIL. Can I get an answer from someone who knows what he's talking about?
Briefly, IT DON'T HAPPEN. Or I wouldn't have posted on here.
Check the other post, Someone is quitting. Go ask for his stuffs.

you fail because that's how you do it. maybe you should try explaining which part exactly you failed at.

Is this a joke? Windows 8 has the exact same interface as Windows 7 (desktop environment etc, the only change is the lack of the start button, big whoop!), you can turn off the "metro" touch interface with one click, and then you can stop it from ever appearing again.

There is no logical reason to downgrade, W8 has some nice speed improvements over W7 as well.

Just so you know, Win8 is perfectly viable without a touchscreen. The new Metro "Start Menu" can be setup to be very usefull with a mouse. You just need to play around a bit to what is comfortable to you. Don't jump on the bandwagon just because it looks different.

SCSI is older than WinXP, they don't sell PC with that crap anymore wtf you talking about. it's all about SATA these days..

The problem with No-Longer-Metro isn't that it can't be used or that it's different GÇö it's that it's pointless. It is there to solve the issue of multitasking overview on single-task platforms with small-size/lowres screens, a problem that doesn't exist in a multi-task large-size/highres environment.

Metro was obsoleted by type-to-search and similar UI tweaks, which came with Vista(!). All the other things it's supposed to solve aren't issues on a proper full-size computer and instead, it only manages to introduce usability problems because it supposes (and thus imposes) restrictions that come from a completely different platform.

Just because it can be skipped, worked around, or GÇö with large enough a chisel GÇö disabled doesn't make it any less misapplied. It's a wart that should never have existed to begin with because all it does is get in the way, which is pretty much the exact opposite of what a good UI should do.

try a 3 year old OS like windows 7 rather than an 11 year old dinosaur

I own a copy of windows XP and after windows 8 I will be F****ked if I give Bill Gates one more cent.
I checked out the net for alternative os BUT MOST SEEM TO BE STILL IN THE DEVELOPMENT STAGE..
Until about an hour ago I was running 4 accounts on an old comp using XP. It has got a loose connection somewhere and I have left it running since early December.. The power cut about an hour ago has made me decide to drag this comp out of its box and fire it up. I would appreciate information how to uninstall windows 8 a replace it with XP.
Although opinions are interesting they are not really helpful.
Graphics is not an issue. Single players have time to star gaze and look at all the fireworks. Multiplayers tend to study overviews and textual screens.
Ship graphics are something that one can study on a 100au+ warp but are not , absolutely not, necessary.
XP does the job ans so that's what I want..

DO. NOT. GO. BACK. TO. XP.

Windows XP is my all-time favorite version, but for the love of god don't use it. It's old, discontinued, and has no support for it anymore. Think the security holes in windows now is bad? Multiply it by 10 with XP.

Classic Shell owns. I loved the XP version of windows explorer and I wish they'd revert back to that version of it.

Ok, you see, when booting up, precisely after the first screen of text, you press del or f10 to get into the BIOS (the two I've encountered). Then you set your first boot device to CDROM or similar if you are going to install from a disk.

Then you install Linux Mint. Install Wine and playonlinux through Synaptics. Open playonlinux and select EVE and... Oh you're talking about windows? Never mind then. >.>

See? There you go. MUCH easier than using the perfectly functional OS that came per-loaded and pre-configured on your PC.

Seriously, if the OP is incapable of removing a partition and installing a different OS, I think sending him/her down the Linux/WINE road is fraught with pain and anxiety.

He/she has been given explicit instruction how to do it and plenty of advice not to do it. At this point, any further response from in has to be trolling.

He/she should go with the last thing stated: take the PC to a computer store and let someone who knows what they're doing take care of it.

KB

... XP does the job ans so that's what I want..

This "stupid" old system is most succesful stable and best microsoft os system in thier entire history, i know people need adapt to new things, but come on XP was awesome and meny players still use it, exept new generation whith focusend on consumption and people who spent a lot money every month to get new brand cell phone with new icon on better lcd scren, or just to get 2fps more.

Um, Win8 has desktop mode which is basically same as Win7 but faster....

Um, Win8 has desktop mode which is basically same as Win7 but faster....

Is this a joke? Windows 8 has the exact same interface as Windows 7 (desktop environment etc, the only change is the lack of the start button, big whoop!), you can turn off the "metro" touch interface with one click, and then you can stop it from ever appearing again.

There is no logical reason to downgrade, W8 has some nice speed improvements over W7 as well.

Timely article related to this subject :

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/01/help-ive-got-windows-8-and-i-miss-my-start-menu/

Get a Mac. It just works.