remove Vista & boot manager

I've decided to remove Vista 64 (lack of needed drivers) and I have two
questions:

1. What is the best way to remove it - just format that drive from another
partition?
2. When I remove it will Microsoft Boot Manager be removed automatically or
do I need to do something else?

thanks

John

Hi John,

> 1. What is the best way to remove it - just format that drive from another
> partition?

Generally yes, but be careful of where the boot files are located. If you
format the active partition/volume that contains them, your system will be
unbootable until you repair the boot sector.

> 2. When I remove it will Microsoft Boot Manager be removed automatically
> or do I need to do something else?

Generally, how you do this depends on the Operating System that remains. For
XP, you'd boot the CD and load the Recovery Console and run fixboot and
possibly fixmbr. For Win9x, it'd be a SYS C:. For Linux, you'd probably not
be using the MS bootloader but rather LILO/GRUB and simply need to edit it.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"John J Leber" <j.leber2@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> I've decided to remove Vista 64 (lack of needed drivers) and I have two
> questions:
>
> 1. What is the best way to remove it - just format that drive from another
> partition?
> 2. When I remove it will Microsoft Boot Manager be removed automatically
> or do I need to do something else?
>
> thanks
>
> John
>