Uninstalling Vista

[brandon.mat]

I installed vista on a second partition of my drive, D. C drive is the first partition with XP. See the thing is the boot.ini file got moved to the D drive, so it is on my vista logon, whenever i try to modify it through xp when i boot i get an error. So how do i go abouts uninstalling vista in the first place (5219) ....and so that i don't get screwed over with the boot file. Ps: i dont want to lose and info on my C: drive.

thanks - Brandon

[brandon.mat]

bump. Anyone?

[micro]

format Driveletter:\ ?

[Orange Battery]

I had the same setup as you and after a bit of research this is how I done it.

The first thing I came up with was this from another forum:

with vista still fully installed, boot to your XP installation

go to start -> run and type "c:\boot\fixntfs -xp" (without the quotes) click ok, and reboot the system

when the system reboots you should notice the bootloader has gone

boot back into xp again and go to disk management

select the drive you have vista installed on, right click it and select format.

then, go to windows explorer and delete these files from the root of your xp drive or partition:

boot (folder)

boot.bak

bootmgr

bootsect.bak

right click on 'My Computer',

select properties -> advanced -> startup and recovery settings, and under system startup, make sure that windows xp is selected as the default

If you don't have the fixntfs file (I didn't) then you can download it from another Neowin thread about uninstalling vista:

fixntfs.zip

The post it came from is here:

https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?show...hl=fixntfs&st=0

After doing all this I still had some problems with booting so what i done was to insert my xp disk and go to the recovery console and use the Fixboot c: command to get rid of the last bits of Vista and get XP booting on its own again.

No data will be lost on your c: drive and your current xp configuration with software installed and files saved will not be altered at all.

Hope this helps :)

[brandon.mat]

yes that did help...the only reason that i don't want to proceed is last year in computers class someone didnt have xp for whatever resaon...so i lent them my xp pro cd....( i know shouldnt have) and i never got it returned. So, i'm a little concerned as of now. But thanks for the help!

[ofergal]

I did the c:\boot\fixntfs -xp

and it seems botldr is not running :no:

But I still can't delete the windows directory of vista (on the D: drive, XP is safe on C:)

I get access denied on files like ACW.exe

[jeffrey_ken]

I installed vista on a second partition of my drive, D. C drive is the first partition with XP. See the thing is the boot.ini file got moved to the D drive, so it is on my vista logon, whenever i try to modify it through xp when i boot i get an error. So how do i go abouts uninstalling vista in the first place (5219) ....and so that i don't get screwed over with the boot file. Ps: i dont want to lose and info on my C: drive.

thanks - Brandon

586619341[/snapback]

[jeffrey_ken]

I installed vista on a second partition of my drive, D. C drive is the first partition with XP. See the thing is the boot.ini file got moved to the D drive, so it is on my vista logon, whenever i try to modify it through xp when i boot i get an error. So how do i go abouts uninstalling vista in the first place (5219) ....and so that i don't get screwed over with the boot file. Ps: i dont want to lose and info on my C: drive.

thanks - Brandon

586619341[/snapback]

Well,if you are a Chinese,maybe I can help you.

My god,my poor English!

I can't explain my ways to do so.

What I can say is, you can't uninstall vista is because the NTFS

[minkis]

I installed vista on a second partition of my drive, D. C drive is the first partition with XP. See the thing is the boot.ini file got moved to the D drive, so it is on my vista logon, whenever i try to modify it through xp when i boot i get an error. So how do i go abouts uninstalling vista in the first place (5219) ....and so that i don't get screwed over with the boot file. Ps: i dont want to lose and info on my C: drive.

thanks - Brandon

hey.. i had the same problem and this is what i did to fix it...

boot from the xp setup cd and hit r to enter the recovery console

when your in the console type: fixboot c:

and bootcfg /rebuild (to fix your boot.ini)

... type exit to reboot and then xp should startup fine

hope this helps

[Timothy003]

Wow... this thread is almost nine months old...

Edited July 21, 2006 by Timothy003