Dual Boot Querie (REMOVE XP TO USE VISTA ON ITS OWN)

G

Guest

I had XP Home Edition installed on a 40Gb partition (C) on my acer laptop. I
have now installed Windows Vista Home Premium Edition on the other 40Gb
partition but that is now VOLUME :C. I would love for someone to tell me how
to remove xp completely so I can just use Vista. I was told If I format :D
which has XP on it, the boot manager would be deleted so I don't want to try
that just incase. Whenever I had xp and a beta of vista, I could just format
the vista parition then and delete the boot manager entry but I don't know if
I could do it the other way around.
 
N

Night Keeper

If you have the Vista DVD (not a restore disk) you should be able to format
the XP partition, reboot from the Vista DVD, choose install (let it search
for Vista installations), choose repair, then click to repair the start up
files. It will find files missing, rewrite your boot files and not effect
any other files. Reboot.
 
G

Guest

Night Keeper said:
If you have the Vista DVD (not a restore disk) you should be able to format
the XP partition, reboot from the Vista DVD, choose install (let it search
for Vista installations), choose repair, then click to repair the start up
files. It will find files missing, rewrite your boot files and not effect
any other files. Reboot.



Ok thanks, I will try this
 

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