uninstalling vista

[milleron]

the boot.ini file. the file could have been moved.

In answer to one of your above questions, you shouldn't copy the
boot.ini file from another machine. It might work if the number and
types of HDs in that machine are identical to yours, but Setup created
this file for your particular machine. If you're down to a
nonbootable machine, and you have NO backup of boot.ini, it wouldn't
hurt to try copying such a file (in Recovery Console), but it may not
work. If you truly have no backup of this file, you may need to do a
repair of XP from a bootable XP CD, hopefully one slipstreamed with
SP2.

Where do you suppose the boot.ini tab in msconfig got its data?

i have a few computers with xp on them and the boot.ini file was either in
"c:\" or in "c:\windows". maybe it just got moved to the root dirrectory
of windows.

(sigh)

i know its in msconfig but it was removed from the file location "C:\".
When you are XP run msconfig. You will see the boot.ini tab.

no, i'm not really, i just would like to know all the ways do it the
operation i guess besides the laptop with vista on it does not have a
dvd burner it (to tell the person who offered that idea. thanks
anyway).

yes the boot.ini file is gone. well, at least from where it was last
located. would the vista installation moved it to a new location?

The boot.ini file is not gone. It is on your XP partition. It just
is not used by Vista. Why are you having a problem with our
answers?

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?
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 13:41:32 -0700, "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]"

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.

 

[Bones]

Fixboot rewrites the boot sector, it won't replace boot.ini if it is really
gone. (although fixboot followed by a fixmbr might be required to remove the
bcd boot manager if you havent doen it already)

Repairing the OS is kind of using a sledgehammer to kill a flea..if the
boot.ini is really gone (which is pretty weird) you can rewrite it by
booting from the XP cd to recovery console and running the command bootcfg
/rebuild
The pc will find your Xp install and ask you if you want to add it. Load
identifier is whatever descriptive text you want to call the install, then
for load options type in /fastdetect this will rebuild your boot.ini file

the boot.ini file. the file could have been moved.

So, LOOK FOR THE FILE!!!.

Enter "boot.ini" as the search term in XP Search, and make sure you
set Search to check in hidden and system folders.

If Search fails to find the file, then try this:

Boot XP from the XP installer disk, choose the first opportunity to
"Repair", go to the Repair Console, then

Where do you suppose the boot.ini tab in msconfig got its data?

i have a few computers with xp on them and the boot.ini file was either
in
"c:\" or in "c:\windows". maybe it just got moved to the root dirrectory
of windows.

(sigh)

i know its in msconfig but it was removed from the file location
"C:\".
When you are XP run msconfig. You will see the boot.ini tab.

no, i'm not really, i just would like to know all the ways do it
the
operation i guess besides the laptop with vista on it does not have
a
dvd burner it (to tell the person who offered that idea. thanks
anyway).

yes the boot.ini file is gone. well, at least from where it was
last
located. would the vista installation moved it to a new location?

The boot.ini file is not gone. It is on your XP partition. It
just
is not used by Vista. Why are you having a problem with our
answers?

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?
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 13:41:32 -0700, "Andre Da Costa
[Extended64]"

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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[Donald L McDaniel]

Fixboot rewrites the boot sector, it won't replace boot.ini if it is really
gone. (although fixboot followed by a fixmbr might be required to remove the
bcd boot manager if you havent doen it already)

Repairing the OS is kind of using a sledgehammer to kill a flea..

I wasn't giving the OP directions to actually do a Repair Install of
the OS, just giving him directions on how to access the Repair
Console, from which he would issue any boot-repair utility commands.

if the
boot.ini is really gone (which is pretty weird) you can rewrite it by
booting from the XP cd to recovery console and running the command bootcfg
/rebuild
The pc will find your Xp install and ask you if you want to add it. Load
identifier is whatever descriptive text you want to call the install, then
for load options type in /fastdetect this will rebuild your boot.ini file

Thank you, "Bones".

Apparently, I gave the wrong instructions.

I just assumed that "fixboot" would actually rewrite boot.ini.

My only experience with fixing a boot volume was when I removed Linux
from my computer, and ran "fixmbr" to remove the LILO loader and
return the XP Boot menu. Since then, I've pretty much been giving the
same advice I found worked for me.

I guess if boot.ini is nowhere to be found, it would be kind of hard
to return the XP boot menu by issing the command "fixmbr", although it
did work for me to remove the LILO loader and return the XP boot menu.

Anyway, just trying to get the OP to DO ANYTHING but whine over and
over.

the boot.ini file. the file could have been moved.

So, LOOK FOR THE FILE!!!.

Enter "boot.ini" as the search term in XP Search, and make sure you
set Search to check in hidden and system folders.

If Search fails to find the file, then try this:

Boot XP from the XP installer disk, choose the first opportunity to
"Repair", go to the Repair Console, then

Where do you suppose the boot.ini tab in msconfig got its data?

i have a few computers with xp on them and the boot.ini file was either
in
"c:\" or in "c:\windows". maybe it just got moved to the root dirrectory
of windows.

(sigh)

i know its in msconfig but it was removed from the file location
"C:\".
When you are XP run msconfig. You will see the boot.ini tab.

no, i'm not really, i just would like to know all the ways do it
the
operation i guess besides the laptop with vista on it does not have
a
dvd burner it (to tell the person who offered that idea. thanks
anyway).

yes the boot.ini file is gone. well, at least from where it was
last
located. would the vista installation moved it to a new location?

The boot.ini file is not gone. It is on your XP partition. It
just
is not used by Vista. Why are you having a problem with our
answers?

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?
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 13:41:32 -0700, "Andre Da Costa
[Extended64]"

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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[Donald L McDaniel]

the file on my xp machine seems to be gone as well. the only file found in
the search was boot.ini.backup and it was in the folder c:\windows\pss

So, Steve, try POSTING the contents of THIS file to this thread.
Perhaps we will be able to let you know if it it really reflects your
true XP boot setup.

If it does, all you will have to do is move the file from where it is
now to C:\ and rename it as "boot.ini".

For some reason or another, I do not have a "C:\Windows\pss" folder,
so was unable to check if I also have such a file. In my case, it
would be a generic file, not one which I had edited. Perhaps I've not
yet edited boot.ini.

the boot.ini file. the file could have been moved.

So, LOOK FOR THE FILE!!!.

Enter "boot.ini" as the search term in XP Search, and make sure you
set Search to check in hidden and system folders.

If Search fails to find the file, then try this:

Boot XP from the XP installer disk, choose the first opportunity to
"Repair", go to the Repair Console, then

Where do you suppose the boot.ini tab in msconfig got its data?

i have a few computers with xp on them and the boot.ini file was either
in
"c:\" or in "c:\windows". maybe it just got moved to the root dirrectory
of windows.

(sigh)

i know its in msconfig but it was removed from the file location
"C:\".
When you are XP run msconfig. You will see the boot.ini tab.

no, i'm not really, i just would like to know all the ways do it
the
operation i guess besides the laptop with vista on it does not have
a
dvd burner it (to tell the person who offered that idea. thanks
anyway).

yes the boot.ini file is gone. well, at least from where it was
last
located. would the vista installation moved it to a new location?

The boot.ini file is not gone. It is on your XP partition. It
just
is not used by Vista. Why are you having a problem with our
answers?

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?
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 13:41:32 -0700, "Andre Da Costa
[Extended64]"

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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[Bones]

haha that's actually funny because a lot of my boot record/sector experience
comes from linux as well...although most of mine was because I kept playing
with LILO or Grub and messing something up and had to rewrite the MBR a few
dozen times
I do a lot of work with XP but you rarely have to rewrite the MBR or boot
sector in XP, unless you are dual booting of course..or until now with Vista
using a very different boot method

Fixboot rewrites the boot sector, it won't replace boot.ini if it is
really
gone. (although fixboot followed by a fixmbr might be required to remove
the
bcd boot manager if you havent doen it already)

Repairing the OS is kind of using a sledgehammer to kill a flea..

I wasn't giving the OP directions to actually do a Repair Install of
the OS, just giving him directions on how to access the Repair
Console, from which he would issue any boot-repair utility commands.

if the
boot.ini is really gone (which is pretty weird) you can rewrite it by
booting from the XP cd to recovery console and running the command bootcfg
/rebuild
The pc will find your Xp install and ask you if you want to add it. Load
identifier is whatever descriptive text you want to call the install, then
for load options type in /fastdetect this will rebuild your boot.ini file

Thank you, "Bones".

Apparently, I gave the wrong instructions.

I just assumed that "fixboot" would actually rewrite boot.ini.

My only experience with fixing a boot volume was when I removed Linux
from my computer, and ran "fixmbr" to remove the LILO loader and
return the XP Boot menu. Since then, I've pretty much been giving the
same advice I found worked for me.

I guess if boot.ini is nowhere to be found, it would be kind of hard
to return the XP boot menu by issing the command "fixmbr", although it
did work for me to remove the LILO loader and return the XP boot menu.

Anyway, just trying to get the OP to DO ANYTHING but whine over and
over.

On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 01:28:52 -0400, "Steven Wabik"

the boot.ini file. the file could have been moved.

So, LOOK FOR THE FILE!!!.

Enter "boot.ini" as the search term in XP Search, and make sure you
set Search to check in hidden and system folders.

If Search fails to find the file, then try this:

Boot XP from the XP installer disk, choose the first opportunity to
"Repair", go to the Repair Console, then
type "fixboot" <ENTER>. This should rewrite your XP boot loader.



Where do you suppose the boot.ini tab in msconfig got its data?

i have a few computers with xp on them and the boot.ini file was
either
in
"c:\" or in "c:\windows". maybe it just got moved to the root
dirrectory
of windows.

(sigh)

i know its in msconfig but it was removed from the file location
"C:\".
When you are XP run msconfig. You will see the boot.ini tab.

no, i'm not really, i just would like to know all the ways do it
the
operation i guess besides the laptop with vista on it does not
have
a
dvd burner it (to tell the person who offered that idea. thanks
anyway).

yes the boot.ini file is gone. well, at least from where it was
last
located. would the vista installation moved it to a new location?

message
The boot.ini file is not gone. It is on your XP partition. It
just
is not used by Vista. Why are you having a problem with our
answers?

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?
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 13:41:32 -0700, "Andre Da Costa
[Extended64]"

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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[Steven Wabik]

i sorta dislike the vista boot manager. i just like the simple boot.ini
file.

haha that's actually funny because a lot of my boot record/sector
experience comes from linux as well...although most of mine was because I
kept playing with LILO or Grub and messing something up and had to rewrite
the MBR a few dozen times
I do a lot of work with XP but you rarely have to rewrite the MBR or boot
sector in XP, unless you are dual booting of course..or until now with
Vista using a very different boot method

Fixboot rewrites the boot sector, it won't replace boot.ini if it is
really
gone. (although fixboot followed by a fixmbr might be required to remove
the
bcd boot manager if you havent doen it already)

Repairing the OS is kind of using a sledgehammer to kill a flea..

I wasn't giving the OP directions to actually do a Repair Install of
the OS, just giving him directions on how to access the Repair
Console, from which he would issue any boot-repair utility commands.

if the
boot.ini is really gone (which is pretty weird) you can rewrite it by
booting from the XP cd to recovery console and running the command
bootcfg
/rebuild
The pc will find your Xp install and ask you if you want to add it. Load
identifier is whatever descriptive text you want to call the install,
then
for load options type in /fastdetect this will rebuild your boot.ini file

Thank you, "Bones".

Apparently, I gave the wrong instructions.

I just assumed that "fixboot" would actually rewrite boot.ini.

My only experience with fixing a boot volume was when I removed Linux
from my computer, and ran "fixmbr" to remove the LILO loader and
return the XP Boot menu. Since then, I've pretty much been giving the
same advice I found worked for me.

I guess if boot.ini is nowhere to be found, it would be kind of hard
to return the XP boot menu by issing the command "fixmbr", although it
did work for me to remove the LILO loader and return the XP boot menu.

Anyway, just trying to get the OP to DO ANYTHING but whine over and
over.

On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 01:28:52 -0400, "Steven Wabik"

the boot.ini file. the file could have been moved.

So, LOOK FOR THE FILE!!!.

Enter "boot.ini" as the search term in XP Search, and make sure you
set Search to check in hidden and system folders.

If Search fails to find the file, then try this:

Boot XP from the XP installer disk, choose the first opportunity to
"Repair", go to the Repair Console, then
type "fixboot" <ENTER>. This should rewrite your XP boot loader.



Where do you suppose the boot.ini tab in msconfig got its data?

i have a few computers with xp on them and the boot.ini file was
either
in
"c:\" or in "c:\windows". maybe it just got moved to the root
dirrectory
of windows.

(sigh)

i know its in msconfig but it was removed from the file location
"C:\".
When you are XP run msconfig. You will see the boot.ini tab.

no, i'm not really, i just would like to know all the ways do it
the
operation i guess besides the laptop with vista on it does not
have
a
dvd burner it (to tell the person who offered that idea. thanks
anyway).

yes the boot.ini file is gone. well, at least from where it was
last
located. would the vista installation moved it to a new
location?

message
The boot.ini file is not gone. It is on your XP partition. It
just
is not used by Vista. Why are you having a problem with our
answers?

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?
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 13:41:32 -0700, "Andre Da Costa
[Extended64]"

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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[Todd]

Have you told Microsoft feedback what you think about boot.ini vs the Vista
Boot Manager. They probably are not going to see it if you post it here.

i sorta dislike the vista boot manager. i just like the simple boot.ini
file.

haha that's actually funny because a lot of my boot record/sector
experience comes from linux as well...although most of mine was because I
kept playing with LILO or Grub and messing something up and had to rewrite
the MBR a few dozen times
I do a lot of work with XP but you rarely have to rewrite the MBR or boot
sector in XP, unless you are dual booting of course..or until now with
Vista using a very different boot method

Fixboot rewrites the boot sector, it won't replace boot.ini if it is
really
gone. (although fixboot followed by a fixmbr might be required to remove
the
bcd boot manager if you havent doen it already)

Repairing the OS is kind of using a sledgehammer to kill a flea..


I wasn't giving the OP directions to actually do a Repair Install of
the OS, just giving him directions on how to access the Repair
Console, from which he would issue any boot-repair utility commands.

if the
boot.ini is really gone (which is pretty weird) you can rewrite it by
booting from the XP cd to recovery console and running the command
bootcfg
/rebuild
The pc will find your Xp install and ask you if you want to add it. Load
identifier is whatever descriptive text you want to call the install,
then
for load options type in /fastdetect this will rebuild your boot.ini file


Thank you, "Bones".

Apparently, I gave the wrong instructions.

I just assumed that "fixboot" would actually rewrite boot.ini.

My only experience with fixing a boot volume was when I removed Linux
from my computer, and ran "fixmbr" to remove the LILO loader and
return the XP Boot menu. Since then, I've pretty much been giving the
same advice I found worked for me.

I guess if boot.ini is nowhere to be found, it would be kind of hard
to return the XP boot menu by issing the command "fixmbr", although it
did work for me to remove the LILO loader and return the XP boot menu.

Anyway, just trying to get the OP to DO ANYTHING but whine over and
over.




On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 01:28:52 -0400, "Steven Wabik"

the boot.ini file. the file could have been moved.

So, LOOK FOR THE FILE!!!.

Enter "boot.ini" as the search term in XP Search, and make sure you
set Search to check in hidden and system folders.

If Search fails to find the file, then try this:

Boot XP from the XP installer disk, choose the first opportunity to
"Repair", go to the Repair Console, then
type "fixboot" <ENTER>. This should rewrite your XP boot loader.



Where do you suppose the boot.ini tab in msconfig got its data?

i have a few computers with xp on them and the boot.ini file was
either
in
"c:\" or in "c:\windows". maybe it just got moved to the root
dirrectory
of windows.

(sigh)

i know its in msconfig but it was removed from the file location
"C:\".
When you are XP run msconfig. You will see the boot.ini tab.

no, i'm not really, i just would like to know all the ways do it
the
operation i guess besides the laptop with vista on it does not
have
a
dvd burner it (to tell the person who offered that idea. thanks
anyway).

yes the boot.ini file is gone. well, at least from where it was
last
located. would the vista installation moved it to a new
location?

message
The boot.ini file is not gone. It is on your XP partition. It
just
is not used by Vista. Why are you having a problem with our
answers?

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?
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 13:41:32 -0700, "Andre Da Costa
[Extended64]"

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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[Steven Wabik]

how do i tell them. i have not gave them my opinion about this sorta stuff
in a long time.

Have you told Microsoft feedback what you think about boot.ini vs the
Vista
Boot Manager. They probably are not going to see it if you post it here.

i sorta dislike the vista boot manager. i just like the simple boot.ini
file.

haha that's actually funny because a lot of my boot record/sector
experience comes from linux as well...although most of mine was because I
kept playing with LILO or Grub and messing something up and had to rewrite
the MBR a few dozen times
I do a lot of work with XP but you rarely have to rewrite the MBR or boot
sector in XP, unless you are dual booting of course..or until now with
Vista using a very different boot method


Fixboot rewrites the boot sector, it won't replace boot.ini if it is
really
gone. (although fixboot followed by a fixmbr might be required to remove
the
bcd boot manager if you havent doen it already)

Repairing the OS is kind of using a sledgehammer to kill a flea..


I wasn't giving the OP directions to actually do a Repair Install of
the OS, just giving him directions on how to access the Repair
Console, from which he would issue any boot-repair utility commands.

if the
boot.ini is really gone (which is pretty weird) you can rewrite it by
booting from the XP cd to recovery console and running the command
bootcfg
/rebuild
The pc will find your Xp install and ask you if you want to add it. Load
identifier is whatever descriptive text you want to call the install,
then
for load options type in /fastdetect this will rebuild your boot.ini file


Thank you, "Bones".

Apparently, I gave the wrong instructions.

I just assumed that "fixboot" would actually rewrite boot.ini.

My only experience with fixing a boot volume was when I removed Linux
from my computer, and ran "fixmbr" to remove the LILO loader and
return the XP Boot menu. Since then, I've pretty much been giving the
same advice I found worked for me.

I guess if boot.ini is nowhere to be found, it would be kind of hard
to return the XP boot menu by issing the command "fixmbr", although it
did work for me to remove the LILO loader and return the XP boot menu.

Anyway, just trying to get the OP to DO ANYTHING but whine over and
over.




On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 01:28:52 -0400, "Steven Wabik"

the boot.ini file. the file could have been moved.

So, LOOK FOR THE FILE!!!.

Enter "boot.ini" as the search term in XP Search, and make sure you
set Search to check in hidden and system folders.

If Search fails to find the file, then try this:

Boot XP from the XP installer disk, choose the first opportunity to
"Repair", go to the Repair Console, then
type "fixboot" <ENTER>. This should rewrite your XP boot loader.



Where do you suppose the boot.ini tab in msconfig got its data?

i have a few computers with xp on them and the boot.ini file was
either
in
"c:\" or in "c:\windows". maybe it just got moved to the root
dirrectory
of windows.

message
(sigh)

i know its in msconfig but it was removed from the file location
"C:\".
When you are XP run msconfig. You will see the boot.ini tab.

no, i'm not really, i just would like to know all the ways do it
the
operation i guess besides the laptop with vista on it does
not
have
a
dvd burner it (to tell the person who offered that idea. thanks
anyway).

yes the boot.ini file is gone. well, at least from where it was
last
located. would the vista installation moved it to a new
location?

message
The boot.ini file is not gone. It is on your XP partition. It
just
is not used by Vista. Why are you having a problem with our
answers?

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?
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 13:41:32 -0700, "Andre Da Costa
[Extended64]"

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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[Guest]

This Works for me! I was able to follow these directions and flawlessly
remove the boot information and erase the disc containing Windows Vista. I
started out with no problems and ran Vista for several days. Then it started
giving me the big blue screen of death! I think I narrowed the problem down
to having loaded Microsoft's new beta Office Professional. After I loaded
that the problems started. On my other computer I have left Vista, since it
is not critical to my every day life. I had no problems with this computer
either until after I loaded MS Windows 2007 beta. Then it started to lock up
and crash, causing rebooting of my computer. Just for your info. It may not
be Vista - it may be other programs. But thanks for the post for
uninstalling the dual boot info.

 

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Guys, big thanks for the useful info here. Firstly I couldn't even install
Vista, got the blue screen of death at first re-boot. However, after that, PC
always booted to Vista first, instead of original XP which is on seperate
partition. Annoying in the least.
After following instructions here downloaded the Vista boot pro, worked a
treat, now I can reformat the partition I used for Vista.
Not sure why others have problems with your advice ......

Cheers