Is there any way to get rid of Vista without a format?

[ForumMaster]

I have two paritions. C is for windows xp and i installed Vista on D which also houses my installers. i could back it up and format, but is there a way to get rid of vista without formatting the drive? will just deleting the folders and using the Repair console work? TIA.

 

[Underclocked]

http://www.vistabootpro.org/

 

[ForumMaster]

thank you very much. so now i can simply delete the folder and use this to restore XP right?

 

[Cstefan]

I'm finding the folders to be utterly evil to get rid of. I installed it on my 160g data drive to check out rc1 and I am about to resort to offloading all of my data onto a pair of 80g externals and format it just to rid myself of them.

 

[zbalat]

1. vistabootpro to remove the boot
2. gparted live or a Linux live cd to delete the Vista partition and then to resize the xp partition

 

[Robor]

Originally posted by: zbalat
1. vistabootpro to remove the boot
2. gparted live or a Linux live cd to delete the Vista partition and then to resize the xp partition

Reminder: Backup your data before resizing your partition!