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Old April 12th, 2007, 08:57 AM
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Question Uninstall Vista Home premium 32 Bit, how to?
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I'm enquring on behalf of a friend. He was running Windows XP Home edition and decided to upgrade to Windows Vista Home premium 32 Bit. Now he's decided to revert back to XP. How does he uninstall Vista? Any advice is much appreciated.

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Old April 12th, 2007, 10:22 AM
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First, Google "Uninstall Vista". Lots of people like your friend have posted the same question.

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http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...9131950AAdI7ZT
Typically, you can't downgrade an OS once you've installed it. If you really want XP back, and you have the installation disk, I suggest you re-boot your computer into DOS. Once there, run FDISK, delete your active partition and create a new active partition. This will completely wipe everything off that portion of the HD so you can start fresh again.

I haven't got Vista so I don't know how easy it is. Some people have found it difficult. Don't blame me if it goes wrong!

I have heard, though, that if other programs don't work with Vista you can select an option to make it work like XP temporarily.
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Old April 12th, 2007, 12:14 PM
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Hi

Cheers for the advice. One last question, how does my friend run FDISK?
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Old April 12th, 2007, 03:33 PM
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FDISK is on a boot floppy and it won't delete an NTFS file system usually. I suggest your friend use his/her XP CD and boot from that to remove the vista install by formating the drive. He/she shouldn't have to remove the partition because both are NTFS partitions.
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Old April 12th, 2007, 11:24 PM
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Vista does not have an uninstall option in add/remove programs, upgrade is permanent. So as Photolady says boot from CD.

Before doing this backup the important stuff, emails, favorites, my doc's, because a format will wipe that drive clean.
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