Help on uninstalling Vista proper

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NeoDude

I want to un-install Vista before I clean-install Pre-SR1. Is there any way
to take off Vista AND the Boot Manager? I heard it's bad to just kill the
partition.
 
The easiest way would probably to download Vista Boot Pro. There is an option
in there to remove the boot manager. Then format the partition.

Other than that, I would probably format or kill the partition, then boot
from an XP disk to recovery console and run the command fixboot
That will rewrite the boot sector which will also kill the boot loader.
 
Yes when you installed vista it made back ups of the boot loader. You just
need to turn off the following folder option to see the files "Hide
protected operating system files" via tools > options > folder options.
 
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