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Uninstall Vista by Reaper on 06-11-2006 at 03:21 PM
I installed Vista Beta 2, like many others.
I installed it on another HDD, so my XP is still fine. How can I remove the Vista stuff? I don't want to format the drive as its got my music and other crap on it.
RE: Uninstall Vista by RaceProUK on 06-11-2006 at 03:47 PM
You can only really remove Vista by formatting the drive. Unless you go to the drive in XP and manually delete everything that isn't 'music and other crap'.
RE: RE: Uninstall Vista by prashker on 06-11-2006 at 03:49 PM
quote:
Originally posted by raceprouk
You can only really remove Vista by formatting the drive. Unless you go to the drive in XP and manually delete everything that isn't 'music and other crap'.
also if you do that the Vista Bootloader will stay there
so follow these directions too.
quote:
Dual-booting with vista can be a little tricky to remove because of the new bootloader.
Playing with dual-boot systems has killed many people's hard drives. I would suggest massive back-ups before you try to remove part of a dual-boot system. If you mess up, you might be unable to boot to any of your partitions. You do this at your own risk.
Here's the basic steps you need to do:
1. Backup, backup, backup
2. Reboot and Boot to your XP CD-ROM
3. Start the Recovery Console
4. Run Fixboot
5. Run fixmbr to reset the master boot record
6. Exit the Recovery Console
7. Reboot
8. To remove the extra entry, edit the boot.ini file to remove the "Microsoft Windows Longhorn" entry.
9. Format Your Vista Partition
RE: Uninstall Vista by Reaper on 06-11-2006 at 03:53 PM
quote:Ok, i've deleted some files, but I can't delete the others because "Access is Denied".
Originally posted by raceprouk
You can only really remove Vista by formatting the drive. Unless you go to the drive in XP and manually delete everything that isn't 'music and other crap'.
RE: Uninstall Vista by Mike on 06-11-2006 at 04:03 PM
quote:Unlocker
Originally posted by Reaper
Ok, i've deleted some files, but I can't delete the others because "Access is Denied".
RE: Uninstall Vista by Max on 06-11-2006 at 05:07 PM
Wouldn't the most logical solution be to copy and paste the music files onto you're Windows XP partition, remove Windows Vista from your boot.ini file and then format the Windows Vista partition.
RE: Uninstall Vista by ins4ne on 06-11-2006 at 05:53 PM
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Originally posted by Mike
Unlocker
thx man
very usefull program, i was searching for something like that[/OFFTOPIC]
RE: Uninstall Vista by RaceProUK on 06-11-2006 at 06:42 PM
quote:Only if you don't know what you're doing. In 99.99999999999999% of all cases, 'fixmbr' or 'fdisk /mbr' from the XP Recovery Console works.
Originally posted by SonicSam
quote:
Dual-booting with vista can be a little tricky to remove because of the new bootloader
RE: Uninstall Vista by Reaper on 06-11-2006 at 09:10 PM
quote:I don't have Debug privileges and since im using XP home, I can't change the users who do.
Originally posted by Mike
quote:Unlocker
Originally posted by Reaper
Ok, i've deleted some files, but I can't delete the others because "Access is Denied".