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10-10-2006, 04:31 PM
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dual booting vista and xp
ok so i've recently dual booted vista and xp. but now i want to get rid of vista. i have two hdds. one has vista one has xp. i removed the hdd that has vista on it cuz it was slowing down my PC and now i dont know how to get rid of the dual booting menu.. do i have to put the hdd back in and format the hdd?
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10-10-2006, 05:16 PM
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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. 1. Boot your computer in to Windows XP. 2. Ensure you have the Vista DVD image emulated or in the DVD drive. 3. 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). 4. Restart the computer, and you will notice the boot selection menu is gone. 5. Format the partition/drive where you had Vista installed. 6. 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. 7. Optional: Restart to ensure it still works. 8. 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.
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10-11-2006, 12:42 PM
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thanks for the help ob1. it definately worked.
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10-11-2006, 09:34 PM
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or use vistabootpro....works dandy..
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10-11-2006, 09:39 PM
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10-13-2006, 02:23 PM
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