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Title: Removing Windows Vista
Post by: {LAW} Gamer_2k4 on July 30, 2007, 08:15:51 pm
So I have a partitioned hard drive.  Windows XP is on the C: drive.  I wanted to try out Vista, so I installed it on the D: drive.  Now I'd like to remove it from my computer.  Is there a "right" way to do this? If I were to just delete the Windows folder while XP is running, what would happen?
Title: Re: Removing Windows Vista
Post by: EnEsCe on July 30, 2007, 08:21:45 pm
Format the drive you installed it on... Right click on its icon in My Computer and go Format.
Title: Re: Removing Windows Vista
Post by: {LAW} Gamer_2k4 on July 30, 2007, 08:30:18 pm
Eh...not satisfactory.  I have a lot of data on that drive, and no place to back it up.  Any other ideas?
Title: Re: Removing Windows Vista
Post by: Twistkill on July 30, 2007, 08:34:32 pm
Quote from: {LAW} Gamer_2k4 on July 30, 2007, 08:30:18 pm
Eh...not satisfactory.  I have a lot of data on that drive, and no place to back it up.  Any other ideas?
Wikiupload allows 5 Gb of file storage... but I don't know how much you have to back up.
Title: Re: Removing Windows Vista
Post by: a-4-year-old on July 30, 2007, 08:34:47 pm
Raid 1


other then that just get cds of all the important stuff (you should do this regardless of what you do) and go delete happy, or you can wait for flab to tell you not to listen to me.
Title: Re: Removing Windows Vista
Post by: Mangled* on July 31, 2007, 07:52:35 am
Quote from: {LAW} Gamer_2k4 on July 30, 2007, 08:30:18 pm
Eh...not satisfactory.  I have a lot of data on that drive, and no place to back it up.  Any other ideas?

Stick it on your C: drive.

Then format your D: drive.
Title: Re: Removing Windows Vista
Post by: blackdevil0742 on July 31, 2007, 08:31:50 am
Just remove the windows folder and the boot.ini or what it's called.
Title: Re: Removing Windows Vista
Post by: Mangled* on July 31, 2007, 12:17:18 pm
I think he's saying that he wants to uninstall all the vista files from his slave drive because it sucks and he doesn't want to format the whole drive because he can't be arsed to backup his documents onto his main drive.

LAW.... just put all the files you want to keep on CD's or onto your C: and then format your D:
Title: Re: Removing Windows Vista
Post by: FliesLikeABrick on July 31, 2007, 12:28:53 pm
The danger is in the fact that Vista might be the functioning boot loader.  Gamer, do you have a windows XP CD handy?  If so, then it doesn't matter and we can replace it easily