Troubles with converting VISTA to XP

Hi there.
I've been trying to downgrade from Vista to XP with the discs that were given to me with my purchase of the x301.  Everytime I boot the XP rescue and recovery disc in, I follow the directions as per the XP conversion kit. 
I get to Step 9 and click Next but no terms and conditions window pops up, and the computer starts restoring and creates partitions.  That process takes about 2 hours.
Afterward, the computer tells me to take out the disc and restart the computer.
After I restart the computer, I find that my computer is restored to the last time I created a back up and nothng asks for a supplementary recovey disc.  I receive no promps at all, especially not for the product recovery disc.
I'm not sure what to do.  Can someone out there help? Thanks in advance.

swetez, welcome to the forum,
after the R&R boot disc has loaded you should have an option to choose the advanced options, should be on the lower left side. After selecting this choose to restore your system and then restore to factory. I think you might have been making a wrong selection at this point.
Hope this helps
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