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Reaper
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O.P. Uninstall Vista
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.
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| 06-11-2006 03:21 PM |
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RaceProUK
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RE: Uninstall Vista
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'.
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| 06-11-2006 03:47 PM |
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RE: RE: Uninstall Vista
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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.
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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
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| 06-11-2006 03:49 PM |
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Reaper
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O.P. RE: Uninstall Vista
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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'.
Ok, i've deleted some files, but I can't delete the others because "Access is Denied". |
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| 06-11-2006 03:53 PM |
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Mike
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RE: Uninstall Vista
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Originally posted by Reaper
Ok, i've deleted some files, but I can't delete the others because "Access is Denied".
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| 06-11-2006 04:03 PM |
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Max
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RE: Uninstall Vista
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.
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| 06-11-2006 05:07 PM |
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RE: Uninstall Vista
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| 06-11-2006 05:53 PM |
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RaceProUK
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RE: Uninstall Vista
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Originally posted by SonicSam
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Dual-booting with vista can be a little tricky to remove because of the new bootloader
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. |
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| 06-11-2006 06:42 PM |
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Reaper
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O.P. RE: Uninstall Vista
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Originally posted by Reaper
Ok, i've deleted some files, but I can't delete the others because "Access is Denied".
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I don't have Debug privileges and since im using XP home, I can't change the users who do. |
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| 06-11-2006 09:10 PM |
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