Uninstallation of Dual Boot from XP

[Guest]

Since 10 July I have been running Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista build 5384
on a dual boot basis.
Both of the relevant partitions are on my fixed HDD (IDE port 0) together
with a third partition which is reserved for data only. I also have a
"slot-in" caddy on IDE port 1 which enables me to use a number of different
HDDs (one at a time of course) for external storage - including offsite
backups. On top of this, I have an external USB HDD.

I have not accessed Windows Vista extensively and have not installed many of
the applications I use on XP. However, I am finding that problems have
developed when using XP which seem to be due to driver corruption. I would
therefore like to uninstall BOTH Windows Vista AND the dual boot program
completely as I suspect that deleting the Vista partition only is unlikely to
be fully effective. However, I have seen nothing at all relating to the
uninstallation of that part of the dual boot program which has been installed
on the XP partition.

Can this be uninstalled and, if so, HOW??

I would mention that I do have an alternative course of action as I have a
Norton Ghost backup of my XP partition as at 1st July. This could be
restored to the first partition on the fixed HDD after deleting and
formatting both that partition and the Vista partition. My data, being on a
separate partition, will not be affected and the restored XP partition would
only need minor updating. However, I would prefer to uninstall the dual boot
and only use my backup as a last resort.

Any advice and assistance will be gratefully received.

 

[Buddha Pest]

I am looking to delete the dual boot options upon start-up as well. See my
post below on dual boot. I completely deleted the partition with Vista on it
and changed my 'boot.ini' file. But still get the dual boot option upon
startup. The deletion of the partition didn't seem to affect Win XP at all.

 

[Mike Bernstein]

The easist way is to use a program called VistaBootPRO found at:
http://www.vistabootpro.org/. This program can be run from XP or Vista and
has an option under 'Bootloader' to uninstall the Vista Bootloader and
restore XP. This returns your setup to use the original 'boot.ini' system.

I have used this successfully to remove Vista 3 times now without a problem.

Mike Bernstein

 

[John Barnes]

Make sure you have the xp boot files on your 'system' drive and then use
easyBCD or VistaBootPro to restore the XP boot mbr

 

[Buddha Pest]

Mike & John, the vistabootpro did the trick. Thanks.

 

[Guest]

Many thanks Mike and John.
I have downloaded Vistabootpro but will not actually do anything with it
until sometime over the weekend.
I'm sure it will work and will certainly let you all know.

 

[Guest]

Hi to you all,
Sorry I've not been back to you before, but been having problems.
Vista BootPro did not work for me, so I restored my system as at early July
and found to my horror that I even had problems after the restore. In
particular I could not send or receive faxes and there were obvious traces of
Vista still in my system. These included the $recycle.bin folder in
addition to the Recycled.

So I've now reinstalled XP on a brand new uncontaminated(!!) HDD. Later on
I will try RC1 but will keep it completely isolated from my XP system.

Regards to all

Bernarditz