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Steven Wabik
how do i uninstall windows vista.
i am running a dual boot.
vista is on a 2nd removable hard disk
i am running a dual boot.
vista is on a 2nd removable hard disk
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Andre Da Costa [Extended64]
Boot into XP, open My Computer, select the drive Vista is installed on,
right click it, click Format.
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right click it, click Format.
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Steven Wabik
a different way please. i have other data on the disk to that i would like
to keep.
to keep.
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Tom Scales
That parts easy. How do I get the boot manager to go back to just booting
XP.
XP.
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Steven Wabik
what happened to the boot.ini file? it seems to have disapeared when i
installed vista on the 2nd hard drive.
installed vista on the 2nd hard drive.
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jonah
Copy the Data you want to keep off the partition first then format it,
then move the data back.
Jonah
then move the data back.
Jonah
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Colin Barnhorst
Vista does not use boot.ini. Download VistaBootPro to the XP system and use
it to edit the BCD store to remove the entry for Vista.
it to edit the BCD store to remove the entry for Vista.
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Steven Wabik
its like 6GB
jonah said:Copy the Data you want to keep off the partition first then format it,
then move the data back.
Jonah
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Steven Wabik
how do i go back to boot.ini and just to having xp on the system? (without
reformating the 2nd hard disk to which i have vista installed to)
reformating the 2nd hard disk to which i have vista installed to)
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Steven Wabik
*6gb worth of data to copy over to my pc.
jonah said:Copy the Data you want to keep off the partition first then format it,
then move the data back.
Jonah
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milleron
Boot into XP, open My Computer, select the drive Vista is installed on,
right click it, click Format.
And if you want to get rid of everything Vista left behind on your XP
drive, see here
http://www.tech-recipes.com/microsoft_vista_tips1040.html about
rewriting the MBR and the boot sector.
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Jason
If you have a DVD burner, burn the files to that. I know it sucks, but that
is how beta testing sometimes goes.
is how beta testing sometimes goes.
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Andre Da Costa [Extended64]
Use VistaBootPRO to delete the Vista Boot Manager:
http://www.pro-networks.org/vistabootpro/
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Steven Wabik
i'll just do a hard drive to hard drive transfer.
after reformating it, will the boot.ini file go back into effect?
after reformating it, will the boot.ini file go back into effect?
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Steven Wabik
i read the details about the download. i like what it can do. is there
another way to do some of that stuff without downloading that software?
another way to do some of that stuff without downloading that software?
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Steven Wabik
since the boot.ini file is gone now, can i just copy it over from another pc
and then delete the vista partition. would the new boot manager still be
active if i remove vista? and if so, how do i make modifications to it?
and then delete the vista partition. would the new boot manager still be
active if i remove vista? and if so, how do i make modifications to it?
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Colin Barnhorst
Not necessarily. Depending on how you launched the Vista installer you may
have the BCD files in the root folder of your XP partition. Download
VistaBootPro to your XP partition and use it to edit the boot options
screen.
have the BCD files in the root folder of your XP partition. Download
VistaBootPro to your XP partition and use it to edit the boot options
screen.
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Colin Barnhorst
I just told you.
Steven Wabik said:how do i go back to boot.ini and just to having xp on the system? (without
reformating the 2nd hard disk to which i have vista installed to)
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milleron
i read the details about the download. i like what it can do. is there
another way to do some of that stuff without downloading that software?
See my post below about restoring your original MBR and boot sector.
After that's done, just delete the "Boot" folder, bootmgr,
bootsector.bak, and boot.bak.
However, if VistaBootPRO will do all this (and I have NO experience
using it for this purpose), why not download it and use it?
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Colin Barnhorst
The software will be difficult to use without first downloading it.