SirKenin

It isn't a forum, you nutbar. lol It's just a standard webpage. Man alive... You have issues. I thought you said you were familiar with that link? Another fabrication of your imagination I assume.

PC eye

You are the one getting confused here apparently. The mention of a familiar link was on another thread entirely! Or did you forget this one? http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html posted on the other thread. (Meanwhile back to the Vista removal farm...)





1. If you installed Windows Vista as a STANDALONE operating system on its own PC, then simply reformat the hard drive it is on.

2. Where one has DUAL BOOTED with another operating system, for example: Windows XP, then boot into Windows XP and go to Disk Management (right click My Computer>Manage>Disk Management).

Select the drive you have Windows Vista installed on, right click it and select Format. A quick format is all you need. Should you get an error message stating that the drive is in use, open My Computer from your Windows XP desktop, right-click the drive containing the Windows Vista installation you wish to remove and format it from there.

Go to the Run dialogue box on your Windows XP or other "legacy" operating system start menu and type "msconfig" (without the quotes). This will open the System Configuration Utility. Then go to the BOOT.INI tab and select "Check All Boot Paths".

This is automatic and all you need to do after this is select "OK" and "Apply". Do not select "Restart" at this point, but choose "Exit Without Restart" instead.

Next, you must delete the following files and folders from the root of your System drive or partition (Usually Drive C:\)

$RECYCLE.BIN
Boot (folder)
Boot.BAK
BOOTSECT.BAK

Now restart the computer.

On restart, place a check in the System dialogue box that pops up.

Note: This method, while easy to use and effective, has its shortcomings. It does not carry out a full cleanup of your system and leaves traces of the Windows Vista installation on your Windows XP system drive.

These will not interfere with your Windows XP installation should you choose not to remove them. However, should it be your intention to install another operating system in place of Windows Vista or to reinstall Windows Vista, then it is necessary that you follow the MULTI-BOOT REMOVAL METHOD indicated below

3. To remove Windows Vista from a MULTI-BOOT environment where it has been installed on a system containing two or more other "Legacy" operating systems, and with Windows Vista still fully installed, insert your Windows XP CD into your CD/DVD Drive and reboot.

CAUTION: Modifying the contents of one's boot.ini file and bootsector may lead to not being able to access the operating system.

When prompted to by Setup, "Press any key to boot from CD...". Wait for the very first Setup screen at which Setup stops and press R (To repair a Windows XP Installation using Recovery Console, press R). If you installed Windows Vista to a Multi-Boot RAID Array, you will need to install your F6 RAID Floppy drivers, before you get to the setup screen where you press R to enter the Recovery Console.

Select your Windows XP partition > 1. C:\WINDOWS > type "1" (without the quotes) or the appropriate corresponding number for the drive containing your boot.ini

Insert your Administrator password when prompted and Enter

Type "fixboot" at the command prompt and Enter

Type "Yes" and when "Are you sure you want to write a new bootsector to the partition C: ?" appears, type "Y" and Enter

The following message will appear > "a new boot sector was successfully created".

At the command prompt type "exit" and Enter

When the system reboots you will notice that the Windows Vista bootloader no longer exists.

Boot into Windows XP and go to Disk Management (right click My Computer>Manage>Disk Management).

Select the drive you have Windows Vista installed on, right click it and select Format. A quick format is all you need. Should you get an error message stating that the drive is in use, open My Computer from your Windows XP desktop, right-click the drive containing the Windows Vista installation you wish to remove and format it from there.


Now go to Windows Explorer and delete the following files from the root of your Windows XP installation hard drive or partition:

$RECYCLE.BIN
Boot (folder)
Boot.BAK
bootmgr
BOOTSECT.BAK


Next, right click My Computer, select Properties>Advanced>Startup and Recovery>Settings and under System startup, make sure that Windows XP is selected as the Default operating system. If not, then select it as Default operating system and select OK at the foot of the Startup and Recovery user interface and again select OK at the foot of System Properties user interface.

To confirm that your boot.ini file is now correct, go to the Run dialogue box on your start menu and type "msconfig" (without the quotes). This will open the System Configuration Utility. Go to the BOOT.INI tab and select "Check All Boot Paths". You should get a dialogue box appearing with the message "It appears that all BOOT.INI lines for Microsoft operating systems are OK"

Restart your computer and you will note that the Windows Vista boot menu no longer exists and that only non-Windows Vista boot menu items are listed.

4. Should your primary operating system NOT be Windows XP, or where you have MORE THAN ONE instance of Windows Vista installed, it is strongly recommended that you use NEITHER the Dual-Boot Removal Method NOR the Multi-Boot Removal Method. In these circumstances, you are advised to post for assistance in our Windows Vista Chat & Support Forum where the Betas Team is available to give you the necessary advice and support.

Chrisjeffrey

First thing to do is to go to my computer,
Then type in the address tray ""c:\boot.ini"".
It should look like this.

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windo ws Vista beta" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

Select the sentence what contains the vista partition, then delete it.
Watch out what you do because if you do it wrong your computer wont boot.

Greetings
Jeffrey&Chris@ id college

PC eye

That will depend on the beta version that was installed apparently. If you look at the previous page of this thread you will see precisely what was seen in the boot.ini file when RC1 was dual booting with XP. At present the seocnd installation of RC1 is now separate on a second drive with Linux. All RC1 related files were removed from the primary by taking ownership when access denied messages appeared. Are you running the pre-RC1 release?