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uninstalling windows vista.

Discussion in 'Windows - General discussion' started by demon406, May 13, 2006.

  1. demon406

    demon406 Member

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    i have recently downloaded a beta of windows vista and installed it on drive D . i have windows mce on drive C n i want to uninstall vista and just have 1 os and dats winxp mce.. how do i uninstall vista? i dont want to format drive D cause i have some important files over there so is there any sollution?
    thx in advance.
     
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    how did you install vista on drive d: after downloading it?
     
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    yes, i mounted the image with daemon tools. its just a beta and now i wanna get rid of it.
     
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    oh i didnt ugrade my winxp to vista but i did a new install on my drive d.. plz tell me how to get rid of vista cause i cant get my sound drivers,nvidia drivers and dsl drivers.
     
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    if installed like xp than can't uninstall vista except by formatting the drive. if have room on c:drive than copy your info off the d:drive than format it.
     
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    actually i dont have enough empty space on drive C . i have a 120gb hard disk and drive C is 39gb and drive D is 79gb. i wanted to ask u is that possible to make another drive from norton partition magic without deleting my datas in drive D and then formatting?
     
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    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    can use partition magic to increase drive c: & reduce drive d: as you pull off the info you want saved from drive d:
     
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    ok thank you very much but i got this last 2 questions to ask. if i resize my drive C and D,will my info's will b deleted ? that would be a great help if u actually explain me what i have to do step by step if possible.. thankx alot again.
     
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    if carefull when resizing than won't lose info. see what free space is on drive d: & use partition magic to increase c: so that you will lose that free space in d: move as much info as c: will hold by cut & paste than repeat the process of getting more free space from d: that is needed to hold remaining info onto c:.
     
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    ok when i on partition magic i see my two local drives thats C and D . i even see resize a partition on the left of da menu..when i click that they give me the two options to select which one i should resize so i selected D and now they want me to write the new size of the partition which i can minimum resize it to 48gb ( current size is 77gb ) now they ask me to reboot .. actually i m kinda scared if it will delete my infos which i dont want ...... do i restart it plz this is my frist time with partition magic thing ...
     
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    if the difference between 48 & 77 is free space than should be alright to reboot.
     
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    ok i have resize my drive and when i try to increase my drive c i it doesnt increase.when i open partition magic i see there:

    drive C-ntfs-39gb
    (*)-unallocated-32gb
    (*)-extended-45gb
    drive D-ntfs-45gb
    i want to add that extended partition to the drive c partition..how do i do it? the new partition of drive is 45 thats what i wanted but the new partition for drive c should b 39+45 thats 84.... plz tell me how do i fix this.
     
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    ok thankx buddy i got it working i did formatted drive d but now i want to resize drive c n d again ( make it like before) but i recieve an error when its trying to resize ' error27:drive C is locked' whats this and how to fix it?
     
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    i kind of have the same problem i downloaded windows vista transformer but now everything is freaken transperent and i want it off as well how do i un install it?
     
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    did you downloaded windows vista transformer pack or windows vista beta? if its the transformer pack then its simple to uninstall it . just back your way to the add/remove programs and scroll down,you will see windows vista transformer pack . just hit remove and you will see a window poped up with many options. i think its the last one or the second last one where it says uninstalling the transformer pack.. hope this helps.
     
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    good evening people,

    i have a small problem... i wanted to try out the windows vista, so i downloaded the beta two, made a partition with partitionmagic and installed it... checked it out and enjoyed it and all and now i wanted to get rid of it. obviously there is no "uninstalling" of vista so i formatted the drive. everything is alright except when i boot up. i get this microsoft boot manager and i have to choose:

    Microsoft windows ( vista )
    Earlier version of windows ( xp )

    so after formatted that second drive i STILL get this message... the BOOT.INI is a normal windows xp boot.ini file with nothing extra written.. so where can i edit/remove this boot manager?

    please help me out..

    Thank You
     
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    I think this will help... run from a command prompt

    C:\boot\fixntfs -xp (or fixfat, whichever your file system is)

    then delete c:\bootmgr and the boot folder. If entries are in C:\boot.ini, make it not read only, remove the line refering to the Vista install and save.

    As for uninstalling Vista, i would assume it would be in Add/Remove if you upgraded 2000/XP (i haven't tested any uninstall process so i wouldn't actually know) or if you installed it onto another partition/HDD just format it.
     
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    I'm in the same place as you were...i've got vista on one drive and xp on another...

    Is this the way to get rid of the dual boot option screen after formatting the drive with vista on it?

    I keep hearing reading things about "bdcedit.exe" but haven't a clue what it is, does anyone know?

    I'll be formatting the vista drive later...post back here if i have any problems booting after...

    Thanks
     
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    oh i dont know what i did and both of my drives got formatted i think i did something wrong in hirens boot magic i had no idea how to use it lol .
     

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