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i was trying to install windows xp along with vista. but i didnt notice that
i installed it in the same partition as with vista... now my registry is
jammed. can anyone help? how can i uninstall xp? or are there any other
options? thans
 
dyayroos said:
i was trying to install windows xp along with vista. but i didnt notice that
i installed it in the same partition as with vista... now my registry is
jammed. can anyone help? how can i uninstall xp? or are there any other
options? thans
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Restore your PC to a backup created prior to the XP install. If there
is no such backup, then your only recovery would be to reinstall Vista.
 
* dyayroos:
i was trying to install windows xp along with vista. but i didnt notice that
i installed it in the same partition as with vista... now my registry is
jammed. can anyone help? how can i uninstall xp? or are there any other
options? thans
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What do mean "jammed"?

Did you do an in-place-upgrade or clean install?

Vista has a brand new image based install. Nothing from
the old OS is left behind except what is imported back in
when doing an in-place-upgrade. The install procedure takes
an inventory of your stuff, decides what will work, saves your
documents, pics, music, and other settings to a portion of the
disk, then a new image of Vista is laid down. After that, those
other things are imported and installed back into Vista. What
Vista doesn't want or use is put into a folder called Windows.old.
You can delete that after going through it to make sure you don't
want anything. As far as uninstalling XP, XP is already gone once Vista
was installed onto the same partition.


-Michael
 
this is what happened. my computer is pre-installed with vista. but i was
stupid enough not to notice that i was installing xp in the same partition
with vista. now i cant access vista. im trying to uninstall xp but the
computer doesnt respond since it is not an upgrade, rather a fresh install.
the thing is, i installed XP using a folder named "XP" and not "Windows". do
you think my vista is still working? if so, can i edit boot.ini so that i can
also boot to vista?
 
this is what happened. my computer is pre-installed with vista. but i was
stupid enough not to notice that i was installing xp in the same partition
with vista. now i cant access vista. im trying to uninstall xp but the
computer doesnt respond since it is not an upgrade, rather a fresh install.
the thing is, i installed XP using a folder named "XP" and not "Windows". do
you think my vista is still working? if so, can i edit boot.ini so that i can
also boot to vista?
 
You don't "uninstall" an operating system. You either
upgrade it, replace it, or format it. Did you stop the
XP install before it fully completed? You can boot to
the XP desktop?

Do you have a Vista disk? If so, you need to put that
disk in and install Vista. If you want to keep XP, install
Vista to another partition. It is generally better when
installing multiple Windows operating systems to do so
from oldest to newest, anyway.

If you don't have a Vista disk, then your computer must
have a recovery partition that will allow Vista to be reinstalled.
Unless that got fudged with the XP install.

-Michael

* dyayroos:
 
yes i can boot to the xp desktop. its fully installed now by the way... :-(
how then can i access the recovery partition? i think i saw a small partition
(about 10gb) earlier in the XP installation.
 
Well, how you access it can vary depending on
the computer manufacturer. That information should
be at their website support. It may also be that the XP install
rewrote something that keeps you from accessing that.
I know on some Vista installs when some users wanted to
reinstall their original XP that was on a recovery partition,
they had problems and had to contact the manufacturer to
fix it. In all my years of using computers, I have never bought
one that I didn't also get the OS disk. So, I have never actually
used a recovery partition. Strange now that I think about it, but true.

You need to poke around at your computer maker's website
and find out how the recovery works.


-Michael

* dyayroos:
 
i was trying to install windows xp along with vista. but i didnt notice that
i installed it in the same partition as with vista... now my registry is
jammed. can anyone help? how can i uninstall xp? or are there any other
options? thans
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Some accidents inflict only minor injuries -- others are fatal. Yours falls
closer to the latter category.

It is generally recommended in a dual boot setup, to install the older OS
first, and let the newer one create the dual boot scenario. You did it the
other way around. Even if you had used separate partitions, the Vista boot
sequence probably would have been clobbered, but that repair is fairly
simple, and has been well documented in this an similar newsgroups.

In you case, it sounds like a clean install of XP is needed, followed by a
clean install of Vista in a separate partition. Vista will recognize the
existence of XP and set things up properly.

There may be other ways out of your situation, but I would just start over
from scratch.
 
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