Vista - Uninstall issues

I tried to boot from my XP Pro disk in order to uninstall Vista, however I
got a "not compatible" message. How can I go back to XP? I have tried
everything I can think of. Please help. I have tried every posted
suggestion I could find on the subject. Thanks

What are you doing to "uninstall" Vista from the XP Pro disk? The only way to
really uninstall it is to format the drive as you can upgrade or repair Vista
from the XP cd.
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Mark Dietz
PROnetworks <http://www.pro-networks.org>

Friedman-Robert-G wrote:
> I tried to boot from my XP Pro disk in order to uninstall Vista, however I
> got a "not compatible" message. How can I go back to XP? I have tried
> everything I can think of. Please help. I have tried every posted
> suggestion I could find on the subject. Thanks

before going to XP setup, insert the Vista DVD and go to the boot folder,
then run bootsect /nt52 ALL /force

I haven't actually tested this so if it works let us know :-)

"Friedman-Robert-G" <FriedmanRobertG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news3BB4E19-CEA9-4792-9E9D-86DC7344D80C@microsoft.com...
>I tried to boot from my XP Pro disk in order to uninstall Vista, however I
> got a "not compatible" message. How can I go back to XP? I have tried
> everything I can think of. Please help. I have tried every posted
> suggestion I could find on the subject. Thanks

Forgot to add:

After you run that, booting back to Vista is unlikely to work..

I'm guessing you don't have a tape backup, a pc recovery? Or a rescue 3.5.
Try playing w/options, to boot directly from disk, from within vista. I've
found that in the
run MSCONFIG menu, everything is almost identical to xp. Is xp still on any
other partitions? I know, or used to know a free program that would allow you
to delete the vista partition at the beginning, and allow you to choose to
boot into xp, provided you still have it on another partition.


"Friedman-Robert-G" wrote:

> I tried to boot from my XP Pro disk in order to uninstall Vista, however I
> got a "not compatible" message. How can I go back to XP? I have tried
> everything I can think of. Please help. I have tried every posted
> suggestion I could find on the subject. Thanks