How to remove Vista

[Simon]

I installed Vista on a partition of my hard drive, i also had windown
XP running as well.

I have not deleted the partition that vista was on but i still get
asked with operationg sytem i would lilke to run at the boot up

Could any one tell me how to remove teh boot up as i only have XP on my
PC now



TYhanks



P.s i think i will never install 2 operating systems on the same PC
again

 

[Guest]

I installed Vista on a partition of my hard drive, i also had windown
XP running as well.

I have not deleted the partition that vista was on but i still get
asked with operationg sytem i would lilke to run at the boot up

Could any one tell me how to remove teh boot up as i only have XP on my
PC now



TYhanks



P.s i think i will never install 2 operating systems on the same PC
again

Hi,
I assume you did uninstall Vista but you still have Dual Boot up Options
still left behind.
Right Click my Computer and select Properties from the drop down list, on
the System Properties window click on Advanced Tab.
On Advanced Tab click on Settings under * Startup and Recovery* Button.
On the startup and Recovery Window click on the Edit Button under the option;
System startup and there delete the line for Vista ( be careful to chose the
right one).
If all goes well and you will not be presented with dual boot option, the
success.
If you still get it then do the following;
Open Run Command and type; msconfig press OK.
On the Configuration Utility click BooT.INI and clcik on *Check All Boot
Paths* and delete the line for Vista from there.
HTH.
PPlease let us know your outcome.
Regards,
nass

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Vista overwrites the XP bootloader in favor of its own. To return to the XP
bootloader, boot the system with the WinXP CD and press 'r' when prompted to
enter the Recovery Console. Logon to the installation with the admin
password, then from the prompt run fixmbr followed by fixboot.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[S.Sengupta]

Restart your System with XP CD inserted in the CD-ROM,start Recovery
Console.Run Fixboot ,run fixmbr and reset the MBR.Exit and reboot.

regards,
S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]

 

[Rock]

I installed Vista on a partition of my hard drive, i also had windown
XP running as well.

I have not deleted the partition that vista was on but i still get
asked with operationg sytem i would lilke to run at the boot up

Could any one tell me how to remove teh boot up as i only have XP on my
PC now

Vista questions should be posted to the Vista newsgroups.

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.mspx

 

[Kerry Brown]

Download one of the following two programs

EasyBCD http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1

VistaBootPro
http://www.vistamania.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=47

Both of them have the ability to write a XP bootsector. This will remove the
Vista bootsector and restore your single boot to XP.

 

[WTC]

I installed Vista on a partition of my hard drive, i also had
windown XP running as well.

I have not deleted the partition that vista was on but i still get
asked with operationg sytem i would lilke to run at the boot
up

Could any one tell me how to remove teh boot up as i only
have XP on my PC now

Another possibility if you have the Vista install CD is to insert the Vista
CD into your DVD drive. Then at the command prompt type

e:\boot\bootsect /nt52 c:

This is assuming your DVD player is drive 'e' and the system drive is on the
'c' drive.

 

[WTC]

Another possibility if you have the Vista install CD is to insert
the Vista CD into your DVD drive. Then at the command
prompt type:

e:\boot\bootsect /nt52 c:

This is assuming your DVD player is drive 'e' and the system
drive is on the 'c' drive.

One thing I failed to mention is the bootsect command can be done within the
Windows XP desktop environment.