Colin Barnhorst

IfYouAlreadyKnowTheAnswerTravisWhyAreYouAskingTheQuestion?

"Travis W. Bezenar" <TravisWBezenar@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:0F214232-FC47-4213-8818-211A10E64BF1@microsoft.com...
> Aparently You Can It Was Tested By A Class Of I.T. Professionals Such As
> Myself Earlier Tody. If You Create A Windows.OLD Containing Th Proper
> Files
> You CAN Use It To Manually Rollback To The Legacy OS Fallowing The Same
> Steps
> As You Would If The Files Were Made During A Clean Install Keep In Mind I
> Haven't Tested It MySelf But I Was Assured By The Vista Support Trainers
> At
> Microsoft That It Could Be Done. However The Longterm Affects Of The Fix
> Are
> Unknown You May Have To Manually Copy The NTLDR Off The Legacy OS CD And
> May
> Have To Rebuild The MBR (Master Boot Record) And The Boot.INI In Order For
> The Legacy OS To Boot Normally; All Of Which Can Be Done From Either The
> Vista RE Command Prompt Or The WIndows XP Recovery Console. Keep In Mind
> After Doing All This You May Still Have To Manually Configure The Computer
> To
> Look For The NTLDR Instead Of the Boot Loader Used By Windows Vista VIA
> The
> Vista RE Command Prompt.
>
> "Travis W. Bezenar" wrote:
>
>> Before Upgrading To Windows Vista Ultimate Edition RC2 If You Manually
>> Make
>> The Windows.OLD Folder While Still In Windows XP Can You Use It To
>> Manually
>> Rollback To The Legacy OS? As You Can If You Do A Clean Install Without
>> The
>> Fomat.
>>