Remove Vista from partition

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Riadh

Hi,

I had XP running on a computer with 1 single drive. I then freed some space
on that drive and created a partition out of it to install Vista. Everything
went well and I can boot to either OS without any problem. However, I now
want to remove Vista out of the computer. I thought about deleting the
partition but then I remembered that when you install Vista, XP no longer
uses its boot loader.

My question is then: what is the right method to remove Vista and its
partition and still have the computer boot to XP (as before)?

Thank you,

Riadh
 
If XP is still your system drive, you can download VistaBootPro and use it
to restore the XP boot process or you can use the XP install disk and go
into Recovery Console and do a fixboot to restore your ntldr boot process.
Then you can do what you want with the other partition and the Vista boot
files on the XP partition.
 
www.vistabootpro.org not sure, but they siim to be down this morning.
EasyBCD should do the same thing, but I haven't used it in a while. Both
are free. I did have a problem using VistaBootPro's current version with
the beta2 Vista. You need an older version to work. Assume the same is
true for EasyBCD.
 
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