when deleting xp in dual boot with vista first.

[waher]

so, having recieved no further reply to my previous post, i take it that no
one knows anyone who has sucessfully achieved this without reinstalling
vista? thanks to miscrosoft for no real help, even telling me it's
impossible. jude




i heard his refrain when the signal changed he was playing real good, for
free. Joni M.

http://www.geocities.com/waher/

 

[AJR]

Have you been checking for repies to your original post? Follofwing his a
reply I made originally;

"Actually it is easier to set up a XP/Vista dual boot than to remove XP
afterwards. Assuming (I know - lousy word!) XP on C and Vista on D - Vista
installs files - in particuler a hidden folder titled "Boot", which
contains DCDStore data, on C, which if deleted as in deleting the XP Windows
folder will prevent Vista from booting. Also in a dual boot setup, or
"remainder" of such, Vista looks for boot.ini.

Options: 1. Delete all folders/files in C except for folder Boot, and as a
safety measure Boot.ini, Boot.bak and Bootsect.bak. Shrink C and add
unallocated space to D.
2. Use BCDEdit (As a command line tool) or a third party program such as
VistaPro to modify Vista to boot directly from D.
3. Reformat and reinstall Vista

Above all - BACKUP!!!!!"

 

[Rock]

so, having recieved no further reply to my previous post, i take it that
no one knows anyone who has sucessfully achieved this without reinstalling
vista? thanks to miscrosoft for no real help, even telling me it's
impossible. jude

You did receive replies. Btw, this is a user group, not formal MS tech
support.

 

[Victek]

so, having recieved no further reply to my previous post, i take it that
no one knows anyone who has sucessfully achieved this without reinstalling
vista? thanks to miscrosoft for no real help, even telling me it's
impossible. jude




i heard his refrain when the signal changed he was playing real good, for
free. Joni M.

http://www.geocities.com/waher/

I am currently dual-booting XP and Vista. What I've read is you can delete
XP, move/resize the Vista partition to reclaim the space and then boot with
the Vista DVD and do a repair/install. Sounds good, doesn't it? I haven't
tried it though and cannot verify that it works. Perhaps someone here has
tried this and can comment?

 

[waher]

i finially had to reinstall due to failure of system restore. have a clean
install on a single boot. took 5 hours to reinstall all programs. went
without problems. hoping it holds. so, i havn't tried solution either.
have xp on seperate hard disc, unconnected, just in case.
thanks to
all, jude

 

[Elden Fenison]

i finially had to reinstall due to failure of system restore. have a clean
install on a single boot. took 5 hours to reinstall all programs. went
without problems. hoping it holds.

Curious... why would it not "hold"?