Uninstall Vista from Dual Boot

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SouthHams

I am currently Dual Booting Vista RC1 and XP with the chosen OS loading on
the C: drive. I have just been informed that my long awaited Dell Vista
Upgrade has been shipped and would like to remove the version of RC1 before
updating fully to Vista.

Can someone please advise on the best way to do this.
 
It would be helpful if you used drive and partition information from the
Disk Management. Assuming that you have XP on drive 0 partition 1 and Vista
on drive 0 partition 2, you will have the XP drive labeled 'system' If this
is correct you will need your XP install disk or to download and install
VistaBootPro from http://www.vistabootpro.org/ and use it to run 'uninstall
the Vista bootloader to restore the legacy os'. Using the XP install disk
you will go into recovery console and run fixboot
 
Hi,

Assuming that XP was originally the only installed OS on C:\, boot the
system with the XP CD and enter the Recovery Console by hitting 'r' when
first prompted. Logon to the installation, then from the prompt run fixmbr
and fixboot. Exit the console, remove the CD and restart. You should boot
directly to XP without any Vista prompt. Now proceed with your Vista
upgrade, you can also format the partition containing RC1 at this point if
you should choose to.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
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