Hi, JohnD37.
Unless you did something out of the ordinary, you need to do just 3 things,
all easy:
1. Delete WinXP's \Windows folder. Or you could reformat the volume where
that folder is - so long as it is not the System Partition, which holds the
startup files for Vista, too.
2. Edit Vista's startup information (BCD - Boot Configuration Data) to
remove the reference to WinXP. You can use Vista's native-but-cryptic
BCDEdit.exe, or a 3rd-party boot manager editor like EasyBCD from NeoSmart
Technologies.
3. Delete WinXP's startup files, which are no longer needed: C:\NTLDR,
C:\NTDETECT.COM and C:\Boot.ini. They are in the Root of the System
Partition, which may not be Drive C: in your case; boot into Vista and run
Disk Management to see which is the System Partition.
We don't "uninstall" an operating system. We just delete its files or
reformat its partition.
RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
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Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail beta 2 in Vista Ultimate x64)
