how do i uninstall vista?

snow patrol · 7 Jan 2007 at 11:25

I'm running XP, and had a trial copy of vista installed on another disk. I now want to completely delete it, but i'm unsure as to how best to go about that.

I tried deleting the windows / users / program files folders from within XP (the vista ones, obviously!) but got a load of 'access denied' type messages.

Any ideas? Formatting the disk really isn't an option as i have about 100gigs of stuff on there...

snow patrol · 7 Jan 2007 at 11:43

wesley said:
go to disk management and delete the vista partition.

then go to drive C, rename the "bootmgr" to anything to get rid of bootloader

that it

hmmn, but if i delete the vista partition, won't i also delete the ~100gigs worth of media i have on the same partition??? :confused:

I know i should have put vista on a fresh partition, but i couldn't be bothered to create one so i stuck vista onto one of my media partitions...

snow patrol · 7 Jan 2007 at 12:24

Dureth said:
I can't really see anyway of gettting rid of it without a format of the partition. Isn't there space on another driver for you to copy the media to first?

eek, i suppose i MIGHT be able to find the space here or there...

what about if i used a special deleting program, which deletes stuff regardless of access rights etc?

snow patrol · 7 Jan 2007 at 13:30

Thanks