Summary: My 14 year old son who thinks he is the next Bill Gates downloaded a copy of his friends Windows Vista over his Windows XP Media Center. Needless to ...
Summary: Using Disk Management tools, you cannot format your Vista partition. It is not permitted. So how you did it, I do not know. Instead you could boot int...
Summary: sure you can boot with the disk, remove vista, reload xp. if thats a very new hp, there may be little or no drivers for xp i have found out on various...
Summary: I installed the Vista BETA2 a few weeks ago. It seems nice, until I found out that version was buggy and 5456 was the way to go. The thing is, I have ...
Summary: Hi everyone, im a newby with a old question. I have tried nearly everything to remove what i think is an embedded Vista from my PC. As you may have gu...
Summary: OMG this thing is HORRIBLE!! i finally finished step 2 for the upgrade,which means vista is supposed to be fully loaded.. but when it restarts the com...
Summary: i install vista with winxp, i want to remove vista from my pc but problem is how to remove windows boot manager, i format vista drive but then it show...
Summary: @ rhs08 Try this to remove Vista's boot menu. 0. Go into folder options 1. Enable "hidden files and folder" & "protected operating system files" optio...
Summary: Okay - here's an update: The 64-bit DVD did get the Recovery process going, but to no avail. So I followed some instructions on removing Vista - wh...
Summary: While I substantially agree with XPUser, I must also add a few things: 1) Microsoft recommends installing the OLDEST OS FIRST, in Partition C: of Driv...
Summary: Your question wasn't clear so I was curious as to whether you did an upgrade or a clean install. It appeared that you *might* be asking if you could d...
Summary: i have had a lot of problems also, i even removed vista, but decided to put it back on and figure out what was wrong. i went into 'services' and fo...
Summary: You probably won't be surprised by my asking why you are interested in removing Vista. Are you having hardware or software compatibility issues with ...
Summary: I *THINK* you are now in uncharted territory. I would not be surprised however if you end up having to remove vista and start over again completely. G...
Summary: I'm trying to remove Vista from inside of XP, having already used a program to restore the XP Boot loader, I was told it was then a case of simply del...
Summary: Hello All. A number of my colleagues have purchased new computers, PC and Laptops. Although they are very happy with the equipment, they have found th...
Summary: Other people having the same issue, to know how to get your old boot menu back and removely vista safely you can follow these instructions. You dont n...
Summary: Just in case anyone ever wanted to know why M$ removed Vista Desktop search ... Shortly after M$ released Vista in January 2007, Google raised antitru...
Summary: What do you mean by two types ... OEM & Retail? Anyhow, the best way to downgrade to XP is: delete your Vista partition & install XP in its place. Als...
Summary: SATA drivers are not needed. The problem is that the BIOS has the hard drive controller set to AHCI mode. It needs changed to IDE compatible (I do not...
Summary: I used a "Upgrade your Windows Vista Experience" to upgrade my daughters 16 bit from xp. It was dumb. Now I cant roll it back to xp. Anyway to do t...
Summary: First off, I realize this topic could go in the XP section as well, but I felt that it would be better suited toward those who are hhaving trouble wit...
Summary: Before doing anything so drastic as removing Vista, remember Windows 7 is only a beta OP system and expires on the 1st of Aug. at which time you will ...
Summary: I have installed windows vista ultimate in my laptop on drive c:. Now i am getting some probs with it and want to reinstall my xp on drive c & remove ...
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