Help - Uninstalling Vista from a dual boot setup

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damienb

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Hi all,

Just looking for some advise on the above.

Currently running a dual boot setup with Vista and XP. The machine has three hard disks, a 750GB, a 500GB and a 250GB. The 750GB runs Vista, the 500GB runs XP and the 250GB is just used as extra space for either OS.

What I want to do is just remove Vista completely. Is this just a case of formatting the 750GB drive? Will this remove the boot menu at startup though?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks.

Damien
 
Ok please answer these:

1. Is your Vista your first boot drive?
2. Can you boot your 500Gb if you set it as first boot drive?
 
Hmm... Not sure on that.

I installed XP first as usual on the 500GB though.

Is there an easy way to tell?
 
If XP boots its easy as deleting the Vista entry on your boot.ini.

Start | Run | CMD
attrib -s -h -r boot.ini

notepad boot.ini /edit and save

attrib +s +h +r boot.ini

That's it!!!
 
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