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Guest
I can't boot from Windows XP cd. I need to uninstall Vista, can't think of
any other way. Please help.
any other way. Please help.
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William R. Mosher
Have you gone into your bios to set your computer to boot from the CD drive? Also, I think there is a program on your XP CD to make boot and install floppy disks.
William
I can't boot from Windows XP cd. I need to uninstall Vista, can't think of
any other way. Please help.
William
I can't boot from Windows XP cd. I need to uninstall Vista, can't think of
any other way. Please help.
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Guest
Yes I tried everything from the BIOS. Vista somehow just ignored any change I
make. And I am trying to figure out your second suggestion, but I can't seem
to get it to boot like that.
make. And I am trying to figure out your second suggestion, but I can't seem
to get it to boot like that.
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William R. Mosher
If you can make XP boot and install floppies, then, if you can, change your computer's boot order to looking first at the floppy disk drive.
William
Yes I tried everything from the BIOS. Vista somehow just ignored any change I
make. And I am trying to figure out your second suggestion, but I can't seem
to get it to boot like that.
William
Yes I tried everything from the BIOS. Vista somehow just ignored any change I
make. And I am trying to figure out your second suggestion, but I can't seem
to get it to boot like that.
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Guest
wish I still had my floppy drive. got rid of that a long time ago. sigh.
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Guest
You can't make boot floppies directly from the drive, however MS does have it
available on the site to copy to disk.
Since that's not an option for you, ignore that.
Have you tried setting your bios to only boot from the cd? In alot of cases,
the prompt to press a key does not show up, once you pass post, start tapping
a random letter key to see if it comes up.
You may also have an old bios version, but since you are running vista, it's
unlikely. However, if your motherboard is older than 5 or 6 years old, this
is a possibility.
You are correct, however, you do need to boot from the cd to go to XP
available on the site to copy to disk.
Since that's not an option for you, ignore that.
Have you tried setting your bios to only boot from the cd? In alot of cases,
the prompt to press a key does not show up, once you pass post, start tapping
a random letter key to see if it comes up.
You may also have an old bios version, but since you are running vista, it's
unlikely. However, if your motherboard is older than 5 or 6 years old, this
is a possibility.
You are correct, however, you do need to boot from the cd to go to XP
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Colin Barnhorst
It would help to know what kind of computer you have. Please provide some
details. If by XP cd you mean a recovery disk then the function key needed
to start the recovery process has likely been disabled by Vista and you will
need to contact the computer manufacturer for a fix to reenable the function
key during startup. Why did you install Vista on your primary computer in
the first place?
details. If by XP cd you mean a recovery disk then the function key needed
to start the recovery process has likely been disabled by Vista and you will
need to contact the computer manufacturer for a fix to reenable the function
key during startup. Why did you install Vista on your primary computer in
the first place?
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Guest
ok here's the basics of my computer:
-Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.8ghz
-1.00gb of ram
-32bit operating
(custom built)
Also, the xp cd is not a recovery disk. And I installed vista thinking it
will play some sound and let me play half-life or any other game. However,
vista fails to do both on my computer and obviously its hard to use the
computer in this situation. Also I didn't think it would run smoothly on my
old computer. Hmmm... do you think I could hook up my other computer's hard
drive to this computer and somehow boot to that harddrive and format the one
with the vista on it? Is that possible?
-Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.8ghz
-1.00gb of ram
-32bit operating
(custom built)
Also, the xp cd is not a recovery disk. And I installed vista thinking it
will play some sound and let me play half-life or any other game. However,
vista fails to do both on my computer and obviously its hard to use the
computer in this situation. Also I didn't think it would run smoothly on my
old computer. Hmmm... do you think I could hook up my other computer's hard
drive to this computer and somehow boot to that harddrive and format the one
with the vista on it? Is that possible?
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Colin Barnhorst
Your issue has nothing to do with formatting anything. Start the computer
and go into the Setup (BIOS). Set the cd to first boot priority. Restart
with the XP cd in the drive.
and go into the Setup (BIOS). Set the cd to first boot priority. Restart
with the XP cd in the drive.
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Tom Scales
Not sure if it works on all PCs, but on mine when you see the manufacturers
logo, press F12 to get to the boot choices menu.
Tom
logo, press F12 to get to the boot choices menu.
Tom
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Colin Barnhorst
It pretty much works that way on all of them. The problem is that Vista
often overwrites the code that enables the function key to start the
recovery process.
often overwrites the code that enables the function key to start the
recovery process.
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Chad Harris
"I can't boot from Windows XP cd. I need to uninstall Vista, can't think of
any other way. Please help."
"Also, the xp cd is not a recovery disk." That's a damned good thing
because a recovery disc is sure not an XP CD and you can't boot from it,
although MSFT and the OEM's who screw you try to convince you it is and that
it has efficacy and is useful to actually recover and that's not the case
99% of the time.
An XP CD is much better than a recovery disc because you can boot from it to
do a repair install which in XP is the strongest fix a no boot and recover
XP tool.
1) Reboot and Boot to Recovery Console via the XP CD ROM.
If you're not familiar with using the Recovery Console in XP--and frankly
this is one of the few effective contexts I'd use it for see:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307654/en-us Scroll down to and follow:
How To Use the Recovery Console
2) Start the Recovery Console per the Above article's directions. Make sure
that first you boot tot he bios setup by using the appropriate key for your
machine (for example F2 in and reset the boot order to put the XP CD in the
#1 Position in bios setup. After doing this, put in the XP CD and restart
and then when prompted, press R. Since you have only one XP OS enter 1 to
select it when prompted. Enter the admin password or if none is set just hit
enter.
3) Run Fixboot
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...proddocs/en-us/bootcons_fixboot.mspx?mfr=true
4) Run Fixmbr to reset the Master Boot Record. Type Y and enter.
5) Exit the Recovery Console by hitting the exit key.
6) Reboot.
7) To remove the extra entry, edit the boot.ini file to remove the
"Microsoft Windows Longhorn Entry"
8) Format the Vista partition from your XP drive by typing diskmgmt.msc into
the run box and right clicking the drive you had Vista on.
9) Next time back up Windows XP and you should be able to easily do a dual
boot again.
CH
Congrats Bush and Gonzales--the Supreme Court handed your ass to you
yesterday in a week that has been terribly stressful after Star Jones left
the view taking her gastric stapling with her.
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&navby=case&vol=000&invol=05-184
HAMDAN v. RUMSFELD, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, et al.
No. 05-184. Argued March 28, 2006--Decided June 29, 2006:
"The procedures adopted to try Hamdan also violate the Geneva Conventions.
But in undertaking to try Hamdan and subject him to criminal punishment, the
Executive is bound to comply with the Rule of Law that prevails in this
jurisdiction...That claim leads me to state briefly what I believe the
majority sets forth both explicitly and implicitly at greater length. The
Court's conclusion ultimately rests upon a single ground: Congress has not
issued the Executive a "blank check."
any other way. Please help."
"Also, the xp cd is not a recovery disk." That's a damned good thing
because a recovery disc is sure not an XP CD and you can't boot from it,
although MSFT and the OEM's who screw you try to convince you it is and that
it has efficacy and is useful to actually recover and that's not the case
99% of the time.
An XP CD is much better than a recovery disc because you can boot from it to
do a repair install which in XP is the strongest fix a no boot and recover
XP tool.
1) Reboot and Boot to Recovery Console via the XP CD ROM.
If you're not familiar with using the Recovery Console in XP--and frankly
this is one of the few effective contexts I'd use it for see:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307654/en-us Scroll down to and follow:
How To Use the Recovery Console
2) Start the Recovery Console per the Above article's directions. Make sure
that first you boot tot he bios setup by using the appropriate key for your
machine (for example F2 in and reset the boot order to put the XP CD in the
#1 Position in bios setup. After doing this, put in the XP CD and restart
and then when prompted, press R. Since you have only one XP OS enter 1 to
select it when prompted. Enter the admin password or if none is set just hit
enter.
3) Run Fixboot
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...proddocs/en-us/bootcons_fixboot.mspx?mfr=true
4) Run Fixmbr to reset the Master Boot Record. Type Y and enter.
5) Exit the Recovery Console by hitting the exit key.
6) Reboot.
7) To remove the extra entry, edit the boot.ini file to remove the
"Microsoft Windows Longhorn Entry"
8) Format the Vista partition from your XP drive by typing diskmgmt.msc into
the run box and right clicking the drive you had Vista on.
9) Next time back up Windows XP and you should be able to easily do a dual
boot again.
CH
Congrats Bush and Gonzales--the Supreme Court handed your ass to you
yesterday in a week that has been terribly stressful after Star Jones left
the view taking her gastric stapling with her.
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&navby=case&vol=000&invol=05-184
HAMDAN v. RUMSFELD, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, et al.
No. 05-184. Argued March 28, 2006--Decided June 29, 2006:
"The procedures adopted to try Hamdan also violate the Geneva Conventions.
But in undertaking to try Hamdan and subject him to criminal punishment, the
Executive is bound to comply with the Rule of Law that prevails in this
jurisdiction...That claim leads me to state briefly what I believe the
majority sets forth both explicitly and implicitly at greater length. The
Court's conclusion ultimately rests upon a single ground: Congress has not
issued the Executive a "blank check."
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Chad Harris
I wasn't talking about recovering Vista. I was aiming to get back XP on a
dual boot by one of the few means I know. Possibly Colin or someone else
more familiar with BCDedit could figure out a way to salvage the XP with
BCDedit. I wasn't trying to salvage the Vista install here--the OP wanted
to uninstall XP on a dual boot and I was trying to offer a way to get that
done. The facts I had were
1) Dual boot
2) XP CD in hand
Getting to the bios setup to boot from the CD can be accomplished 85% of the
time with F2 and F12 and often other key combos will do it even for the same
bios manufacturer and the same computer manufacturer--those combos can be
different.
This is a fairly complete guide:
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/bios_manufacturer.htm
I don't see why in the world these steps would not work xp cd in hand.
1) Reboot and Boot to Recovery Console via the XP CD ROM.
If you're not familiar with using the Recovery Console in XP--and frankly
this is one of the few effective contexts I'd use it for see:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307654/en-us Scroll down to and follow:
How To Use the Recovery Console
2) Start the Recovery Console per the Above article's directions. Make sure
that first you boot tot he bios setup by using the appropriate key for your
machine (for example F2 in and reset the boot order to put the XP CD in the
#1 Position in bios setup. After doing this, put in the XP CD and restart
and then when prompted, press R. Since you have only one XP OS enter 1 to
select it when prompted. Enter the admin password or if none is set just hit
enter.
3) Run Fixboot
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...proddocs/en-us/bootcons_fixboot.mspx?mfr=true
4) Run Fixmbr to reset the Master Boot Record. Type Y and enter.
5) Exit the Recovery Console by hitting the exit key.
6) Reboot.
7) To remove the extra entry, edit the boot.ini file to remove the
"Microsoft Windows Longhorn Entry"
8) Format the Vista partition from your XP drive by typing diskmgmt.msc into
the run box and right clicking the drive you had Vista on.
9) Next time back up Windows XP and you should be able to easily do a dual
boot again.
CH
Congrats Bush and Gonzales--the Supreme Court handed your ass to you
yesterday in a week that has been terribly stressful after Star Jones
Reynolds left
The View taking her gastric stapling with her and raising the metaphysical
question as to whether ABC and Barbara Walters can stand to lose control of
events.
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&navby=case&vol=000&invol=05-184
HAMDAN v. RUMSFELD, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, et al.
No. 05-184. Argued March 28, 2006--Decided June 29, 2006:
"The procedures adopted to try Hamdan also violate the Geneva Conventions.
But in undertaking to try Hamdan and subject him to criminal punishment, the
Executive is bound to comply with the Rule of Law that prevails in this
jurisdiction...That claim leads me to state briefly what I believe the
majority sets forth both explicitly and implicitly at greater length. The
Court's conclusion ultimately rests upon a single ground: Congress has not
issued the Executive a "blank check."
CH
dual boot by one of the few means I know. Possibly Colin or someone else
more familiar with BCDedit could figure out a way to salvage the XP with
BCDedit. I wasn't trying to salvage the Vista install here--the OP wanted
to uninstall XP on a dual boot and I was trying to offer a way to get that
done. The facts I had were
1) Dual boot
2) XP CD in hand
Getting to the bios setup to boot from the CD can be accomplished 85% of the
time with F2 and F12 and often other key combos will do it even for the same
bios manufacturer and the same computer manufacturer--those combos can be
different.
This is a fairly complete guide:
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/bios_manufacturer.htm
I don't see why in the world these steps would not work xp cd in hand.
1) Reboot and Boot to Recovery Console via the XP CD ROM.
If you're not familiar with using the Recovery Console in XP--and frankly
this is one of the few effective contexts I'd use it for see:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307654/en-us Scroll down to and follow:
How To Use the Recovery Console
2) Start the Recovery Console per the Above article's directions. Make sure
that first you boot tot he bios setup by using the appropriate key for your
machine (for example F2 in and reset the boot order to put the XP CD in the
#1 Position in bios setup. After doing this, put in the XP CD and restart
and then when prompted, press R. Since you have only one XP OS enter 1 to
select it when prompted. Enter the admin password or if none is set just hit
enter.
3) Run Fixboot
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...proddocs/en-us/bootcons_fixboot.mspx?mfr=true
4) Run Fixmbr to reset the Master Boot Record. Type Y and enter.
5) Exit the Recovery Console by hitting the exit key.
6) Reboot.
7) To remove the extra entry, edit the boot.ini file to remove the
"Microsoft Windows Longhorn Entry"
8) Format the Vista partition from your XP drive by typing diskmgmt.msc into
the run box and right clicking the drive you had Vista on.
9) Next time back up Windows XP and you should be able to easily do a dual
boot again.
CH
Congrats Bush and Gonzales--the Supreme Court handed your ass to you
yesterday in a week that has been terribly stressful after Star Jones
Reynolds left
The View taking her gastric stapling with her and raising the metaphysical
question as to whether ABC and Barbara Walters can stand to lose control of
events.
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&navby=case&vol=000&invol=05-184
HAMDAN v. RUMSFELD, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, et al.
No. 05-184. Argued March 28, 2006--Decided June 29, 2006:
"The procedures adopted to try Hamdan also violate the Geneva Conventions.
But in undertaking to try Hamdan and subject him to criminal punishment, the
Executive is bound to comply with the Rule of Law that prevails in this
jurisdiction...That claim leads me to state briefly what I believe the
majority sets forth both explicitly and implicitly at greater length. The
Court's conclusion ultimately rests upon a single ground: Congress has not
issued the Executive a "blank check."
CH
G
Guest
The problem you have is probably caused by a large harddisk (> 160GB) or a
S-ATA disk. For these disks you need a loader that overrides the BIOS, and
that's exactly what the VISTA loader does. So, you in this situation you can
never boot from CD.
The solution is to remove the VISTA bootloader with VISTABOOT PRO
downloadable at: www.pro-networks.org/vistabootpro
With this program you can uninstall the loader, and use the CD
bootfunctionalty again.
Good luck, Cerberus.
S-ATA disk. For these disks you need a loader that overrides the BIOS, and
that's exactly what the VISTA loader does. So, you in this situation you can
never boot from CD.
The solution is to remove the VISTA bootloader with VISTABOOT PRO
downloadable at: www.pro-networks.org/vistabootpro
With this program you can uninstall the loader, and use the CD
bootfunctionalty again.
Good luck, Cerberus.