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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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