Uninstall

[Guest]

How can I uninstall Vista without working DVD player back to Win/XP. I used
upgrade option to install.

 

[Zack Whittaker]

Nah - not possible - the only thing you can do is format the drive with your
XP installation disk from boot, then install again. Sorry (

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[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

If you had dual boot, by installing Vista on a separate partition, could
have simply formatted the Vista Partition and go back to XP. In this case,
its not possible. You will need use a boot disk and use the FDisk command or
use your XP CD, by booting into text based setup and selecting the partition
on which Vista currently installed and Format using NTFS.
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[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

Yes, Windows 98 SE, ME could be uninstalled when you upgraded from previous
versions of Windows.
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[Zack Whittaker]

Yeh, but this is Vista Andre. It can't be uninstalled to go back to XP - you
have to format the lot and install XP back onto it.

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[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

I know, but he said it like this option never existed in any version of
Windows, see
"Uhm, I never heard of an option to uninstall an OS Upgrade..."
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[Zack Whittaker]

Ahh gotcha )

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[Marc Seeger]

Uhm, I never heard of an option to uninstall an OS Upgrade...
would be a bit much imho

 

[Guest]

Not so simple. Vista use a 'bootmanager', so that trash stills on the XP
partion and you can't change it anymore. The vista instalation saved a
'.bak' of the bootsector, but i didn't find a tool to recover it...

Any help???

{}Carlos