Remove Vista?

[Airman Thunderbird]

I've tried Vista installed on my XP machine as a dual-boot. Okay, tried
it, now I'm ready to dump it. Is there an easy way to go back to my
single-boot XP, without starting over?

 

[carl feredeck]

GOOD IDEA ... more and more people are seeing how crap vista is.

I want to help you get rid of that virus called vista..
I assume you have XP on the first partition or disk and vista on the second
and that
vista has added its bootloader so you can choose which os you want to boot
into.

if that is the case install this
www.vnunet.com/vnunet/downloads/2161500/vistaboot-pro

and select INSTALL LEGACY BOOTLOADER (it means the xp one)
then after you restart you will be back to xp only, format the partition or
disk that vista was on...

GOOD RIDDENS STINKY VISTA!!!

 

[Jdr]

Uninstall
After playing around with Vista for a few days, you may want to remove it
from your system, and reclaim the hard drive space. Microsoft has made this
step very simple as well.

Boot your computer in to Windows XP.
Ensure you have the Vista DVD image emulated or in the DVD drive.
Go to "Start" and "Run". Type in "e:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt52 ALL /force"
(without quotes, and replacing e: with the drive letter of your Vista DVD).
Restart the computer, and you will notice the boot selection menu is gone.
Format the partition/drive where you had Vista installed.
Remove two files (Boot.BAK & Bootsect.BAK) on your XP drive's root folder
(C, these were backup files of your previous bootloader, now no longer
useful.
Optional: Restart to ensure it still works.
Use your partition software to merge your partitions together.
And now you have returned your computer to its previous state, without Vista
and without the new bootloader. If anyone has any issues, please post it in
comments and I'll try to resolve it

http://www.istartedsomething.com/20...uninstall-vista-beta-2-for-dual-boot-with-xp/

 

[The poster formerly known as Nina DiBoy]

I've tried Vista installed on my XP machine as a dual-boot. Okay, tried
it, now I'm ready to dump it. Is there an easy way to go back to my
single-boot XP, without starting over?

Boot off of your XP CD and repair install.

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