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Old 12-14-2006   #6 (permalink)
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Re: Uninstall Windows Vista After AN Upgrade

LoL!

"Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst@msn.com> wrote in message
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> IfYouAlreadyKnowTheAnswerTravisWhyAreYouAskingTheQuestion?
>
> "Travis W. Bezenar" <TravisWBezenar@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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>> 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.
>>>

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