Posted by Grant Foraker on October 06, 2006 at 12:51:33:
In Reply to: Vista RC1 posted by Grant Foraker on October 04, 2006 at 12:32:10:
Caveat from a WindowsITPro newletter.
Tip--Removing a Windows Vista installation
If you've had enough of your Windows Vista experiments and want to remove the Vista installation from a computer dual-booting Vista and Windows XP, there's a good chance that XP won't boot after you remove Vista. This situation comes about when you've installed Vista on the active disk partition; removing the Vista installation can also delete the information necessary for XP to boot.
But don't worry, all is not los--as long as you have an XP installation CD-ROM. Simply boot from the XP CD-ROM and follow the onscreen prompts until you reach "Repair the Windows XP installation." This option will reinstall all of the boot information necessary without affecting the data and applications installed on the computer, although you might be prompted to activate the copy of XP after you reboot the repaired installation.
--submitted by David Chernicoff