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Posted: 8th Aug 2008 08:24

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ok people i need some help...i currently have xp and vista on my pc and i want to get rid of vista but i lost my orignal disk and product key...but i still have my xp one. is there any way that i can uninstall vista without losing any info and reformatting my drive??? thanks

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Quantum Fusion

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Posted: 9th Aug 2008 05:35

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Do you mean remove Vista without losing any XP info?

If thats what you mean then yeah, if you created a separate partition for Vista then all you have to do is format that partition and it will leave the other partition with XP untouched.

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Posted: 10th Aug 2008 05:24

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You might also need to fix up the boot partition. I'm not quite sure how to go about this if you're using the vista boot manager, as I've never felt the need to remove vista on my machine

But the process is simply fdisk /mbr from within xp.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306559#

No guarantees that this will work properly with vista boot loader. I'd test it first before removing vista. Once you can boot safely into xp, might as well format the vista drive. Transfer all your files over to xp first.

If you break it, the xp recovery disk can fix your mbr, just run the recovery thingy on the installation disk.

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