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| | Removing Windows Vista RC1 from partition I have a laptop with a 60GB HDD, which is split into two 30GB partitions. The primary partition (C contains a Windows XP installation, and the otherpartiton (D contains an installation of Windows Vista RC1.When booting, I get the Vista boot manager which lets me select between Windows Vista and "Earier versions of Windows". I would like to know exactly what steps I should take to remove the Vista installation from the partition, and restore the boot manager to how it was before I installed Vista. I know that Vista uses a different boot manager to previous versions, but I don't know how to go about changing it back to how it was before. I assume that simply formatting the partion would not restore the pre-Vista boot manager. I am an experienced PC user, I just want to make sure I do this right :-) Regards, Tom |
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| | Re: Removing Windows Vista RC1 from partition 1. Boot your computer in to Windows XP. 2. Ensure you have the Vista DVD image emulated or in the DVD drive. 3. Go to “Start” and “Run”. Type in “e:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt52 ALL /force” (without quotes, and replacing e: with the drive letter of your Vista DVD). 4. Restart the computer, and you will notice the boot selection menu is gone. 5. Format the partition/drive where you had Vista installed. 6. Remove two files (Boot.BAK & Bootsect.BAK) on your XP drive’s root folder (C , these were backup files of your previous bootloader, now nolonger useful. 7. Optional: Restart to ensure it still works. 8. Use your partition software to merge your partitions together. |
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