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Ping Katy
First was XP, Vista installation through XP. I have removed XP and now I have this situtation: boot manager is on C and boot loader on E. Mac "John Barnes" wrote: You don't say This will write the Vista boot records on your C drive and it will show up as the 'system' drive after the change "Mac (Croatia)"

Vista Home Premium- Three and half months later
But one day I found the computer up and running with a full Vista installation! I had XP on that machine as well, and by mistake I had rebooted the machine and it went into the Vista startup without my attendance. After that everything worked fine. Now I have replaced the disk in this machine so I had to make a new

HOW to REMOVE XP after VISTA INSTALLATION?
Un able to change drive letter to D: in windows vista home basic? Believe this is reason I can't boot both systems. I can get to windows xppro if I use install cd and go to recovery and fix boot. After I reboot to vista home basic dvd and do repair startup. reboot and get options for both operating systems.

Install hangs as well as startup repair
If you wish to install XP on a computer just be sure you have the XP hardware and drivers available. It would be foolhardy to downgrade to XP on a computer .... One of my customers decided he wanted a few more and bought three or four more, just after Vista was released. These machines came with 512mb RAM and Vista

Error reformatting (0x8004240f)
A 'repair startup' after making the Vista partition active using the install DVD should work fine. Some times it has to be run more than one time. Vista, in a dual boot setup, installs boot files on "C" in additon to files on "D". Removing XP will result in Vista being unbootable - however all may not be lost

Getting ready to install Vista
Format and start over (this was the answer you weren't going to like) with a clean install of Vista. c) If you still have a windows.old folder containing the original install, you can use the steps here to restore the original XP installation and remove the programs properly and then redo the upgrade:

UAC
How was it partitioned and formatted, before and during the Vista installation? I mean, did you use WinXP or some other tool to partition and format it your instructions on how to delete and reformat drive D and xp. but the little i found on the net does agree that after getting rid of xp that vista's boot file

Computer Failure
My first post said: Unless there's something special about your computer that you haven't told us, just boot into Vista and remove WinXP's \Windows folder. At that point, you had said .... This partition was probably Drive C: originally, but may have been changed to D: (or something else) by the Vista installation.

Donationware by 12noon (Stefan Tucker)
Regarding: "After Vista restarts verify Vista is working OK. Your XP OS will be disabled. If you try to access XP via the Vista Boot Loader you will get a ntldr .... Verify Window XP is OK. Remove the Windows XP Installation CD. Insert the Vista Installation DVD. Restart the computer and load from the Vista DVD.

Weird graphics after fresh install
The episode's island *backgammon for handheld computers* plot begins on December 25, 2004, ninety-five yahoo backgammon backddor days after the crash of Oceanic .... In 2002 she won install xp backgammon in vista the title of Miss Hellas (Greek:Miss Ελλάς) at the Miss Star Hellas pageant and went on to represented

Loading xp over vista
Nitin Ni...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup Will the action below, then avoid the startup boot screen where it asks you to choose the OS for startup? Thks Nitin "Jimmy Brush" wrote: Hello, If you installed Windows Vista to the same partition that Windows XP was on (ie,

Constant Vista Installation error's
However, we would probably need new motherboard drivers, those are pretty simple, just remove the current Nvidia mb drivers from add/remove programs, then install the new ones. I checked on the Nvidia forceware site, they do show a seperate driver package for Vista, versus for XP. Vista may have some basic generic

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
Malke ma...@invalid.invalid microsoft public windows vista general zalariz489 wrote: Can someone tell me how to format vista and install XP cause when i insert xp If there are drivers, download them and store on a CD-R or USB thumbdrive; you'll need them after you install XP. 2. Check with the OEM - either from

Can't format drive after dual boot removed
It keeps showing that the Vista installation is on the D:\ Partition of the C:\ drive. No matter what I do it will not change. Irv "John Barnes" wrote: Go into I decided it was time to remove the training wheels (XP dual boot) using EasyBCD 1.52. I rebooted and everything was fine. Now I wanted to format D:\.

Transferring XP and an XP Slave drive
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code 12 with geforce 6600 GT added to HP Compaq dc7600 cmt
After months of working with Vista and comparing to the mature Windows XP operating system, I'm less than impressed with Windows Vista. For the latest RTM release from MSDN, I completely formatted and installed the x86 RTM to a P4 2.66 MHz system with 1 GB of RAM. I timed the installation.

Outlook Anywhere
Make *certain* that you check in at Windows Update immediately after reinstalling IE7 to install any critical updates offered. KB936782 media player 11 update KB943055 security update xp KB939683 media player 11 update KB944533 security update, IE7 KB929399 media format 11 sdk KB941569 security update xp

I've discovered a new bug I want to confirm.
You could also try a Repair Install with Vista which is done exactly the same way as in XP: ***Repair Install Steps*** (can be used for Vista) MVP Doug Knox per second when the firmware screen with the pc manufacturer's name shows a few seconds after restarting***: The F8 options in Vista are the same as XP,

remove xp
Use option /nt52 to restore the ntldr boot loader 2- Use fixntfs.exe (in the boot folder) to remove the Vista boot loader. You should be able to access the tool Simply boot with your Windows XP cd and install a new copy of XP on another free partition (like where Vista was). DON'T INSTALL IT WHERE YOUR CURRENT

HOW to REMOVE XP after VISTA INSTALLATION?
8) Started upgrade fom XP 9) Allowed updated to be downloaded prior to install, then followed defaults all through Vista install. 10) Vista completed its install...the screen that has the 'Start' button after you input the time zone. 11) Vista install went to the standard background with no icons, or anything else.