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Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 12:59 am Post subject: removing windows vista |
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I have windows xp installed on my C, and vista on my d, is there anyway to uninstall vista? do i just delete it? its not in add remove programs.
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Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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The release documents for the Beta said that there is no uninstall option available. It made a mess of my XP Pro when I tried the upgrade option.
I had made a complete drive backup before the installation using Norton Ghost. The way I had to get rid of it was to do a low-level reformat of the drive and then using Norton Ghost I restored my original drive image. As long as you have a back up of your XP installation you can do it that way. But since you have it on D:, assuming that D: is a separate drive and not a partition of your main drive, then you could just use Disk Management in XP and delete the D partition. Then you would have to go to your C: drive and remove the files that Vista put there for the dual-boot. That would be the following:
Boot.BAK
bootmgr
BOOTSECT.BAK
$RECYCLE.BIN
These should have been created by Vista in the root of your C: drive during the install.
I had success with Vista after I split my drive C into two partitions, making the new partition a 'logical' drive and then using a Virtual drive with DAEMON Tools, I mounted the Vista ISO file and installed to the new partition. It was done in 30 minutes doing it that way, and now both Systems work fine.
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