COMPLETELY deleting Vista from computer

[Guest]

Sup,
Say that somebody installed Vista on a seperate partition. Since it was
installed, Vista must have written some registry codes in XP's registry and
it must have written down some system files in XP's partition (including some
hidden files). I was wondering how to COMPLETELY delete all these files
after I remove/uninstall Vista from the computer.

Also, about the glass function on Vista; can you run this function with the
ATI 200M graphics chip (have graphics enabled on 128MB shared with main
system RAM which in total is 512MB) with 384MB system RAM (since it's shared
with graphics)?

 

[Mark D. VandenBeg]

Not at all sure about your first question.

As to the graphics card. Technically, yes. However, you will be then
dropping the system RAM well below the minimum threshold and have a good
chance of a system crash. Spend the $40 and buy more RAM.

 

[Peter M]

Ah no, it doesn't write anything in XP. The only thing it writes is the hard
drive MBR and it's own bootloader. Using XP boot cd, from the repair
console, you just run fixmbr and fixboot.
I've heard something called EasyBCD or something simplifies it even more if
one wants to revert back to XP on a XP/Vista dual boot situation.

 

[Chris Game]

Ah no, it doesn't write anything in XP.

Apart from the stuff in C:\Boot you mean?

 

[Guest]

It must also do something to XP... at least when installed from there,
i didnt have time to look into it, but if installation of vista fails a
message is displayed upon rebooting back to xp letting you know about it....
i got this message a few times after failed installs and rollbacks

 

[KWE]

KyuHan Kyeong - SushiMAN wrote On 7/12/2006 2:01 PM:

Sup,
Say that somebody installed Vista on a seperate partition. Since it was
installed, Vista must have written some registry codes in XP's registry and
it must have written down some system files in XP's partition (including some
hidden files). I was wondering how to COMPLETELY delete all these files
after I remove/uninstall Vista from the computer.

Any other partitions visible to both Vista and XP will have Vista
changes to the Recycle Bin and SVI (System Restore). You probably will
have to fiddle with XP to get those back to what they were before.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Vista writes to a Boot folder in the XP systemroot. It is the boot
configuration data store.