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| | Uninstall of winxp sp2 on dual boot with win vista ultimate in installed win vista ultimate and created dual boot along with win xp. I have transferred all my files from xp and want to uninstall xp. How do I do that? |
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| | Re: Uninstall of winxp sp2 on dual boot with win vista ultimate Hi, JohnD37. Unless you did something out of the ordinary, you need to do just 3 things, all easy: 1. Delete WinXP's \Windows folder. Or you could reformat the volume where that folder is - so long as it is not the System Partition, which holds the startup files for Vista, too. 2. Edit Vista's startup information (BCD - Boot Configuration Data) to remove the reference to WinXP. You can use Vista's native-but-cryptic BCDEdit.exe, or a 3rd-party boot manager editor like EasyBCD from NeoSmart Technologies. 3. Delete WinXP's startup files, which are no longer needed: C:\NTLDR, C:\NTDETECT.COM and C:\Boot.ini. They are in the Root of the System Partition, which may not be Drive C: in your case; boot into Vista and run Disk Management to see which is the System Partition. We don't "uninstall" an operating system. We just delete its files or reformat its partition. RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX rc@xxxxxx Microsoft Windows MVP (Running Windows Live Mail beta 2 in Vista Ultimate x64) "JohnD37" <JohnD37@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:05747FFC-C3CB-4684-AFB3-A40DCEB9B82A@xxxxxx Quote: > in installed win vista ultimate and created dual boot along with win xp. > I > have transferred all my files from xp and want to uninstall xp. How do I > do > that? |
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