How to remove Vista beta ???

[randym431]

Well, I've had my fun with vista beta and ready to dump it. When I installed it, I broke up my C: drive in two partitions with XP on one part and vista on the other. Then used dual boot between the two. I think if I use part magic to remove and merge the vista part back into the xp part, making one C: drive again, I'm thinking I will still have dual boot problems, where it will still think there are two os to boot from. Or the prompt will still come up to dual boot ..?
I dont really want to reinstall XP, after merging the two parts back into one then just formatting the C: for a fresh xp reinstall. But thats an option.

 

[Underclocked]

Boot from the XP disc, select Repair, and do a fixmbr and fixboot from the recovery console. Dual boot will be gone.

 

[keeleysam]

Or just edit boot.ini and set wait to one second.

 

[SparkyJJO]

Originally posted by: keeleysam
Or just edit boot.ini and set wait to one second.

boot.ini isn't used in the vista boot loader so it has no effect. I forget what I used to remove the vista loader... darnit.

 

[Underclocked]

You diamond boys need ta pay attention. 😉 😀

 

[Doh!]

Download VistaBootPro, select "uninstall vista boot manager".

Deleting vista folders/files is another issue.

 

[Underclocked]

Doh! 😎 I just discovered that program also. Looks like just the ticket.