About a 3-4 months ago i installed windows vista to my drive D and now i
would like to uninstall it, AND without formating the hard drive cause i have
lots of data in there. But the thing is, I dont want to choose the "boot
thing" when i start my computer. Thank you!

TOP wrote:
> About a 3-4 months ago i installed windows vista to my drive D and now i
> would like to uninstall it, AND without formating the hard drive cause i have
> lots of data in there. But the thing is, I dont want to choose the "boot
> thing" when i start my computer. Thank you!

Here is what I would do.

Immediately save the data to a DVD(S). IF something goes wrong you
won't kicjk yourself.

Then figure out how your gonna boot XP? Edit bootloader?

Then format D: to remove the OS and start clean to be thorough.

Restore bootloader if applicable.

Boot to your Windows XP installation.

Insert your Vista DVD in the DVD drive.

At a Command Prompt issue the following command:

D:\boot\bootsect /nt52 c:

Where D: is the drive letter for the DVD drive.

John

TOP wrote:

> About a 3-4 months ago i installed windows vista to my drive D and now i
> would like to uninstall it, AND without formating the hard drive cause i have
> lots of data in there. But the thing is, I dont want to choose the "boot
> thing" when i start my computer. Thank you!

install
VistaBootPro
on the xp system.
use its options to remove the vista boot loader.



mikeyhsd@comcast.net



"TOP" <TOP@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:08DE1199-6267-48CD-AC2E-EB982E5C73EF@microsoft.com...
About a 3-4 months ago i installed windows vista to my drive D and now i
would like to uninstall it, AND without formating the hard drive cause i have
lots of data in there. But the thing is, I dont want to choose the "boot
thing" when i start my computer. Thank you!

"TOP" wrote
> About a 3-4 months ago i installed windows vista to my drive D and now i
> would like to uninstall it, AND without formating the hard drive cause i
> have
> lots of data in there. But the thing is, I dont want to choose the "boot
> thing" when i start my computer. Thank you!

The normal way to uninstall an OS is to formate the partition it's on. I'm
not sure why you are concerned about the presence of data on that partition.
You do have a full and complete backup right? That should be a given with
computers.

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Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]