Vista uninstallation

I upgraded from windows xp pro to vista beta 2 and now my pc cannot read any
cd's only the windows vista dvd so how do I uninstall vista if I cant run my
windows xp install cd?

"R.B." wrote:

> Sorry to severly disopoint you but their is no way to get rid of it with out
> reformating and reinstalling windows.
>
> "Mark" wrote:
>

> > I have installed a clean copy of windows vista on a hard drive that contained
> > my only copy of windows xp, i do not have a disk to reinstall it if i format
> > the c drive, is there any way i can get a disk or uninstall vista, i do not
> > need to keep any information, ps. it is all on one partition.

I had the same problem as you do. But now it's okay. What I did was to
download Sonic RecordNow! trial edition (a customer support assistant told me
to do this). I don't know if it would work on your PC. One more thing I
discovered is that this beta version of Windows Vista read the CDs slower. So
you must pay close attention on the green light on the CD-ROM to show a sign
that the CD in the drive is being read. If there's no more light, and nothing
happen, then it's the problem with the settings of the computer. Try going to
the Control Panel and choose Autoplay. Choose the settings for all the media
format. I suggest to choose Open Folder if there is that choice. Hope this
would work.

"Gabe" wrote:

> I upgraded from windows xp pro to vista beta 2 and now my pc cannot read any
> cd's only the windows vista dvd so how do I uninstall vista if I cant run my
> windows xp install cd?
>
> "R.B." wrote:
>

> > Sorry to severly disopoint you but their is no way to get rid of it with out
> > reformating and reinstalling windows.
> >
> > "Mark" wrote:
> >

> > > I have installed a clean copy of windows vista on a hard drive that contained
> > > my only copy of windows xp, i do not have a disk to reinstall it if i format
> > > the c drive, is there any way i can get a disk or uninstall vista, i do not
> > > need to keep any information, ps. it is all on one partition.

i did a dual boot between xp and vista. i removed vista rc1 for now because
i am not interested in it at this time. i also got rid of it so i can merge
the vista and xp partitions together. now that vista is gone, the vista
bootloader does not appear, yet the files from it still seem to be on the
drive in the dirrectory "C:\boot". for some reason i can not get rid of this
folder and its contents. can someone please help me with this.

Hi,

From XP, you need to take ownership of the folders before you can delete
them.
http://rickrogers.org/fixes.htm#Taking_ownership

Make sure you have also replaced the Vista bootloader with XP's before you
do this.

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Best of Luck,

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

"Steven Wabik" <Stevenw45@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>i did a dual boot between xp and vista. i removed vista rc1 for now because
>i am not interested in it at this time. i also got rid of it so i can merge
>the vista and xp partitions together. now that vista is gone, the vista
>bootloader does not appear, yet the files from it still seem to be on the
>drive in the dirrectory "C:\boot". for some reason i can not get rid of
>this folder and its contents. can someone please help me with this.
>