Vista - Uninstalling Vista

Vista is having to many problems on my machine. Is there a simple way to
uninstall and go back to XP or do I have to format and start all over?

Unfortunately yes ( Format completley (

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"Russell" <Russell@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Vista is having to many problems on my machine. Is there a simple way to
> uninstall and go back to XP or do I have to format and start all over?

If you installed XP and Vista in a dual boot partition, yes, you can format
Vista's partition from within XP, but if installed it on the XP Partition, I
am afraid its a complete format. You have to boot from your XP CD to do so.
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"Russell" <Russell@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Vista is having to many problems on my machine. Is there a simple way to
> uninstall and go back to XP or do I have to format and start all over?

But what will happen to the dual boot? After i installed Vista, i noticed
that the dual boot screen is not the same as XP's. What will happen if i
format Vista's partition from within XP? Will the dual boot screen be gone?
Or will it still be there?

"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:

> If you installed XP and Vista in a dual boot partition, yes, you can format
> Vista's partition from within XP, but if installed it on the XP Partition, I
> am afraid its a complete format. You have to boot from your XP CD to do so.
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> "Russell" <Russell@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:9594CD09-1496-4CD6-B462-0451D9536F4B@microsoft.com...
> > Vista is having to many problems on my machine. Is there a simple way to
> > uninstall and go back to XP or do I have to format and start all over?
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ive installed vista on a separate partition so i can choose OS at startup.
Where in xp do i go to uninstall Vista from the other partition and will that
partition be formated?

"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:

> If you installed XP and Vista in a dual boot partition, yes, you can format
> Vista's partition from within XP, but if installed it on the XP Partition, I
> am afraid its a complete format. You have to boot from your XP CD to do so.
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> Andre
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> "Russell" <Russell@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:9594CD09-1496-4CD6-B462-0451D9536F4B@microsoft.com...
> > Vista is having to many problems on my machine. Is there a simple way to
> > uninstall and go back to XP or do I have to format and start all over?
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