Removing Vista

[Broadwater]

So, I'm going to remove Vista from my dual-boot machine.
Here's how my dual-boot is setup. I simply installed Windows XP in one partition and then after that I installed Windows Vista Ultimate in a second partition. Once Vista was installed it saw XP in the other partition and automatically created the dual-boot menu. Now, if I simply format that second partition will I be still be able to boot XP as I did before Vista was present or has Vista changed something/anything?

From the XP recovery console:
fixmbr
fixboot

Yes? No?

 

[JustaGeek]

Not quite...

"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"

http://www.istartedsomething.c...for-dual-boot-with-xp/

If your Vista is 64 bit, you must use the 32-bit bootsect.exe, since the 64-bit DVD will not be accessible in XP. Just google it...

Good luck!

 

[Piuc2020]

Just run disk cleanup... that should take care of your OS.

GOD.