Title pretty much says it all. Should I go ahead and do it anyway or what. Please help. By skybob on , AM. Perhaps William Wilson will reply. If not, there are many knowledgeable and helpful people there that I am sure will help. I have not tried to remove XP yet and mine is on a seperate drive, so I can not help you. Just scroll to the top of the page and click on forums.
This is not a thread and I posted here in error causing you to follow suit. I obviously will be watching the answer you get because it looks like it will help me too. Good luck! By Unregistered on , AM. Originally Posted by ch33zer. Most people already had xp installed and further down the road installed vista in dual boot In that situation you will still be left with an ntldr missing error upon restart.
By snpaa on , AM. Ok, i will try and get all of these answers in one post: Yes XP is a system partition, since it will detect an OS on the drive, but removable any way. Yes, i suppose i should have mentioned that the MBR will be located on a single partition, thus you will need to either be careful about which partition is loaded first.
Also running the MBR restoration from the vista disc, should be able to fix this. By bobcat on , PM. The problem is that Vista Ultimate 64 has a complete system backup I could restore from if I formatted , but it forces me to backup the XP drive with it.
I have 2 other G hard drives I use for backups by the way. I don't want to wipe Drive 0 only to be forced to restore the XP C: drive I want to get rid of and reclaim the space. Can anyone help? By lloydybwoy on , AM. My situation is similar, but a little more perilous I fear: I accidentally started to install XP onto the same partition as Vista it didn't give me any other partition options despite my having created a 15Gig primary partition for it, just went ahead and chucked it onto C , and I really need to get rid of it without having to reformat the drive and reinstall Vista - is there any way of doing so?
I didn't get to the point where I fully completed the XP set-up, but when I boot into Vista there's a folder on the C: drive called Windows. BB code is on. Smilies are on. Trackbacks are Off. Pingbacks are Off. Refbacks are on. Installing Windows Vista Before we can actually install Vista, there is an important thing we must do, viz. Type the following: diskpart select disk 0 select partition 1 active Close the command prompt and click Next. Proceed with the Vista installation as usual.
Adding XP back into Vista's boot menu Now that you have Vista installed and working, you may have noticed that there is no way to get into XP.
Conclusion Now that you have Windows XP and Vista installed on the same computer, you may install drivers and software. Comments 5 Skip to comment form. I followed this tutorial with Windows 7 instead of Vista and this worked flawlessly! Create two partitions, C and D. Install XP on D. I remember from previous experiences that XP still called its drive C even though it is technically D.
First of all, drive letters are defined within the context of an operating system not the BIOS. Therefore, the idea of XP "calling its drive C even though it is technically D" isn't entirely correct. Second, XP always calls the active partition on the first hard drive "C:" in the installer stage.
It doesn't matter what size the partitions are. Of course, if neither partition is marked as active, it might choose based on the size or order of partitions Third, the main point of this tutorial was the separation of both systems. Even if you successfully install XP on C: and Vista on "D:" the Vista installer still calls the active partition "C:" but renames the system partition to C: even if it was different in the installer window , it would work perfectly, EXCEPT for the fact that Vista's boot files will be on the active partition in this case, the one XP is on.
This would prevent you from just deleting the XP partition, and would give you issues if you're trying to boot from GRUB for example. Never once had any issues with it or formatting the second Partition. Though with the advent of Windows 7, I forgo installing XP. It works just fine This tutorial specifically addresses how to separate both operating systems completely and ensure that they both boot independently by simply switching the "active" bit.
This is necessary if you want to use GRUB for multi-booting, and this allows you to just delete the XP partition without requiring you to repair your Vista partition's boot. Leave a comment. Enter your comment below. If you want to share code, please use the [code] tag. Click to view a tutorial with various BBCode formatting examples. If you choose not to sign up for Gravatar, your image will default to an Identicon.
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Your comment will appear on the page after it has been reviewed. Allowing any screen resolution on Vista. Choosing a Good Password. Once into setup, choose repair console from the first screen not install. Now the last option is for a DOS prompt, pick that. A DOS prompt appears, and type the following: bootrec. By Hootie10 on , AM. Hi, I'm new to this forum - I stumbled upon it when trying to find the answer to my dual boot problem and have been impressed with the quality of information here.
I realiase that I'm asking the same question here but to ensure I don't kill my system I need to be sure that my circumstances are the same as the others. I originally had XP installed then installed Vista on a seperate harddrive set up as dual boot, not realising that it would be difficult to remove XP at a later stage. My concern is that if I do as William suggests by inserting the Vista DVD then opt to repair and then use commands 'bootrec.
Can you confirm that this procedure will 'repair' my Vista drive and allow it to boot independantly. Also, can I perform this procedure with the XP unplugged? Regards Hootie. By lurkswithin on , AM. Since you used 2 different drives, more than likely the vista drive doesn't have a MBR at all. If you remove the XP drive then use the vista installation disc then it will rewrite it and set it up on that drive.
The xp drive will have to be corrected as well because it will contain vista references and keep asking for dual boot options. These options will need to be removed. If it was me As for the XP drive I no longer wish to use this, instead I wish to perform an LLF on it and use it as a mirror drive for the Vista drive, once it runs independantly.
Thanks again. I can confirm that you have the right information. But that is all. There is no confirmation that the dvd repair option will work as intended. Sometimes plans go really well and others go off on some unknown tangent. I take your point, guess I was just being over cautious.
I'll will try it shortly and report back the results Thanks for your help. By stingingwinner on , PM. By Winterpale on , AM. I followed the instructions for the two dos prompts and then restarted, only to get a message saying "A disk read error has occurred. BB code is on. Smilies are on.
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