Uninstalling Vista

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Some please please help me

Instead of doing a clean install on my second drive I done an upgrade over
XP. Iwant to remove Vista and start again however every time I try and boot
to the earlier version nothing happens and I don't really want to do a format
of my hard drive due to the pain this causes. All help and advice is greatly
received and I'm getting desperate to sort this out

MMMMTIA
 
Instead of doing a clean install on my second drive I done an upgrade over
XP. Iwant to remove Vista and start again however every time I try and
boot
to the earlier version nothing happens and I don't really want to do a
format
of my hard drive due to the pain this causes. All help and advice is
greatly
received and I'm getting desperate to sort this out
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What pain? Since you overwrote XP, you have no choice but to reformat
and install XP fresh. Backup any data (documents, spreadsheets, databases,
etc.) before formatting, of course.

Tom Lake
 
souchie40 said:
Some please please help me

Instead of doing a clean install on my second drive I done an upgrade over
XP. Iwant to remove Vista and start again however every time I try and
boot
to the earlier version nothing happens and I don't really want to do a
format
of my hard drive due to the pain this causes. All help and advice is
greatly
received and I'm getting desperate to sort this out

MMMMTIA
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If you did an upgrade over WinXP the only way back is a format and then
install WinXP.
 
After you reinstall XP as Tom and Frank correctly indicate, don't you have a
backup you can restore to get back your files?
 
souchie40 said:
Some please please help me

Instead of doing a clean install on my second drive I done an upgrade over
XP. Iwant to remove Vista and start again however every time I try and
boot
to the earlier version nothing happens and I don't really want to do a
format
of my hard drive due to the pain this causes. All help and advice is
greatly
received and I'm getting desperate to sort this out

MMMMTIA
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You, sir, are a moron.
 
Larry Hodges said:
You, sir, are a moron.
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I am sure this really helps "souchie40". I am sure he gets the picture.
Personally I use Norton's Ghost and copy an image of my harddrive to another
location. Makes Beta testing a piece of cake......
 
Larry Hodges said:
You, sir, are a moron.
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I am sure that comment really helps "souchie40" I think he gets the picture.
We've all made regrettable mistakes Beta testing! Personally I now use
Norton's Ghost to copy an image of my harddrive before installing beta
software. Keeps my life simple
 
Some please please help me

Instead of doing a clean install on my second drive I done an upgrade over
XP. Iwant to remove Vista and start again however every time I try and boot
to the earlier version nothing happens and I don't really want to do a format
of my hard drive due to the pain this causes.
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TOUGH SHIT. It clearly stated in very large letters on the installation
CD, BEFORE you installed, that you cannot roll back to XP.

You'll have to format and re-install. That'll teach you two things:

1) You're a ****ing idiot for not reading big warning notices
2) You're a ****ing idiot for not backing up, again as told in the big
warning notice.
 
After you reinstall XP as Tom and Frank correctly indicate, don't you have a
backup you can restore to get back your files?
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If they're so fecxkin stupid that they took no notice of the big
warning notice, do you honestly think they'll have backups?
 
If you are attempting to open a new thread do so by using New Post and not
Reply (or whatever is used by your newsreader). No one can begin to help
you unless your post include a description of your problems and a
description of the pertinent part of your computer the problem is happening
to.
 
Colin -
His problem was simple. He installed Vista over WinXP as an UPGRADE !!!! No
need for any other pertinent data about hardware, software here. It`s all
over, as stated on the previously posted replies to his question.
Regards. ................... John.
 
Because he's an idiot. I'm just pointing that out...in case he hadn't come
to grips with it.

Let me reiterate...

He, by mistake (as if that is possible for anybody that bothers to read the
prompts before clicking OK), overwrote his XP with Vista. Anybody that can
read English can tell that it's upgrading, therefore REPLACING his current
installation of XP.

When I was on the beta test team for Win2k, access was limited. If you had
an MSDN account and were a programmer, you could get on. Vista lets anybody
on, and these guys jump on board. "Help, I just broke the cup holder on the
front of my computer!!"

It's a beta. Don't run it unless you know what you're doing. If you have
valid questions, great. If you overwrote your main OS (the equivalent of
breaking the cup holder on the front of your computer), you are an idiot.

Yes, I'm cynical. No, I'm not sorry.
 
troyboy said:
I am sure that comment really helps "souchie40" I think he gets the
picture.
We've all made regrettable mistakes Beta testing! Personally I now use
Norton's Ghost to copy an image of my harddrive before installing beta
software. Keeps my life simple
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Troyboy (sounds like a member of the Village People), there is no help for
Mr. 40 other than reformatting and re-installing XP. Why? Because he was
an IDIOT and upgraded his XP to Vista BETA. Yes, everybody makes mistakes.
But people that do this have no business running beta anything. This is
basic stuff. Simply read the warning that Vista is about to upgrade (i.e.
overwrite your XP), and if you want to continue, click OK.

He clicked OK. I rest my case.

Personally, I run SCSI. I have x64 on one drive and Vista on another. If I
want to "test drive" Vista, I simply go into the SCSI bios when rebooting
and tell it which drive to boot. If I want to dump Vista, I simply format
that drive from my work OS (x64 in this case).
 
you sir are an obnoxious git and if you work in the profissional field of IT
i would urge everyone to steer clear from you. I did in fact install by
accident however those of us that are more at the user end can supply
different data than you geeks that get hard about programming, which after
all is what the programme is forthe user not tech heads without a social life
or friends
 
How did you "install by accident"????

You had to either download and burn off a 3.5 Gb DVD ISO image, or request a
dvd, open the package, put it in the machine, and enter a valid code???
 
Dear Mr. 40,

Actually, a beta release IS for the tech heads. Or...at least for people
who don't "install by accident".

Read this: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/preview.mspx

In the red text, please note: "Beta 2 is intended for developers, IT
professionals and technology experts to continue or begin their testing of
Windows Vista."

Further it says: "Before you decide to use Beta 2, you should feel
comfortable with installing operating systems, updating drivers, and general
PC troubleshooting." Again, in red text. But then we've already
established you don't read before clicking...

Regarding my social life, I'm still recovering from last weekend. I had a
buddy fly up from Oakland and another drive down from Seattle for the Champ
Car races in Portland. (We had three day passes complete with pit access.)
They arrived Wednesday and left Monday. We went pistol and rifle shooting
one day, trap shooting at a gun club the next and played poker every night
along with six other local friends in addition to attending the races Fri,
Sat and Sun. Nightly BBQs consisted of ribs, chicken and steak and corn
cooked in the husk on the BBQ (great way to cook corn btw). And beer of
course. Lots of beer. I also have a nice gal I'm dating, but tonight look
forward to laying low and gaming with some buddies online. A quiet "dry"
weekend is in order.

As far as being a geek, I am a 4th dan black belt in Taekwondo. However, I
have basically retired from that and don't teach anymore. For the last four
years, I have concentrated on weight training (still doing karate a couple
times of week of course). You can find me in misc.fitness.weights, which is
what I consider my "home" newgroup.

And yes, I am a database programmer by trade. I write vertical market apps
for companies without off-the-shelf software solutions, and am quite good at
it. My web design skills are severely lacking however, but I'm ok with
that. No, I do NOT work for Microsoft, and therefore don't have to be nice
to stupid people.

Have a nice day. Good luck with that formatting. Let me know if you need
some work done.
 
Dude, you SUCK!!!! You had a champ car party in PDX, and did not invite me
to fly up from San Jose???
 
It's an annual event. There's always next year.

Fortunately, one of my local poker buddies has a carpet cleaning business.
He stopped by this morning with his steam cleaning van and cleaned my
carpet. The house was trashed from poker. The cigar smell is just now
leaving. And my dog got into the spare rib bones, got sick and puked and
crapped in the hall on the carpet. It wasn't pretty. He was able to clean
it all up.

I actually broke even on poker. I'm good with that. It was great fun and
didn't cost me a dime. The guy from the Seattle area (I wonder who he works
for...) kicked our asses and showed no mercy. I was up $40 before he
started playing.

-Larry
 
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