Boot Up

[Guest]

I have been beta testing Vista and have it installed on C drive with XP on
drive D as a dual boot system. When I can afford the cost of purchasing the
retail version of Vista I will. In the mean time I would like to remove the
Beta Vista. In order to do this I will have to reformat my C drive but this
will remove my boot up files.

My question is this:

Which files do I need to back up and then replace on C drive to enable my XP
to start up after the format.

Thanks in advance for any help provided and if I have posted this in the
wrong place, my apologies and will post in the right place if pointed in the
right direction

Lee

 

[peter]

None........Vista uses a different master boot record than XP.
Boot with the XP Cd and use the XP Recovery Console to repair the MBR and
recreate the boot.ini
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314058
peter