So, I was given this really crappy laptop for free. It really sucks. It came with Windows Vista but only the minimal required parts in order to run it. So I would like to put Windows XP on it so it can run better. The only problem is that I don't know if doing this will destroy the system recovery settings. If I can't find all of the right drivers for XP I would like to revert it back to Vista. Does anyone know how I would be able to put XP on my laptop without getting rid of the system restore option? A friend of mine told me there are ways but he didn't elaborate that well