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i was trying to install windows xp along with vista. but i didnt notice that i installed it in the same partition as with vista... now my registry is jammed. can anyone help? how can i uninstall xp? or are there any other options? thans > i was trying to install windows xp along with vista. but i didnt notice that > i installed it in the same partition as with vista... now my registry is > jammed. can anyone help? how can i uninstall xp? or are there any other > options? thans Restore your PC to a backup created prior to the XP install. If there is no such backup, then your only recovery would be to reinstall Vista.  SignatureTom Porterfield * dyayroos: > i was trying to install windows xp along with vista. but i didnt notice that > i installed it in the same partition as with vista... now my registry is > jammed. can anyone help? how can i uninstall xp? or are there any other > options? thans What do mean "jammed"? Did you do an in-place-upgrade or clean install? Vista has a brand new image based install. Nothing from the old OS is left behind except what is imported back in when doing an in-place-upgrade. The install procedure takes an inventory of your stuff, decides what will work, saves your documents, pics, music, and other settings to a portion of the disk, then a new image of Vista is laid down. After that, those other things are imported and installed back into Vista. What Vista doesn't want or use is put into a folder called Windows.old. You can delete that after going through it to make sure you don't want anything. As far as uninstalling XP, XP is already gone once Vista was installed onto the same partition. -Michael this is what happened. my computer is pre-installed with vista. but i was stupid enough not to notice that i was installing xp in the same partition with vista. now i cant access vista. im trying to uninstall xp but the computer doesnt respond since it is not an upgrade, rather a fresh install. the thing is, i installed XP using a folder named "XP" and not "Windows". do you think my vista is still working? if so, can i edit boot.ini so that i can also boot to vista? > * dyayroos: > > i was trying to install windows xp along with vista. but i didnt notice that [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > -Michael You don't "uninstall" an operating system. You either upgrade it, replace it, or format it. Did you stop the XP install before it fully completed? You can boot to the XP desktop? Do you have a Vista disk? If so, you need to put that disk in and install Vista. If you want to keep XP, install Vista to another partition. It is generally better when installing multiple Windows operating systems to do so from oldest to newest, anyway. If you don't have a Vista disk, then your computer must have a recovery partition that will allow Vista to be reinstalled. Unless that got fudged with the XP install. -Michael * dyayroos: > this is what happened. my computer is pre-installed with vista. but i was > stupid enough not to notice that i was installing xp in the same partition [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] >> >> -Michael yes i can boot to the xp desktop. its fully installed now by the way... :-( how then can i access the recovery partition? i think i saw a small partition (about 10gb) earlier in the XP installation. > You don't "uninstall" an operating system. You either > upgrade it, replace it, or format it. Did you stop the [quoted text clipped - 44 lines] > >> > >> -Michael Well, how you access it can vary depending on the computer manufacturer. That information should be at their website support. It may also be that the XP install rewrote something that keeps you from accessing that. I know on some Vista installs when some users wanted to reinstall their original XP that was on a recovery partition, they had problems and had to contact the manufacturer to fix it. In all my years of using computers, I have never bought one that I didn't also get the OS disk. So, I have never actually used a recovery partition. Strange now that I think about it, but true. You need to poke around at your computer maker's website and find out how the recovery works. -Michael * dyayroos: > yes i can boot to the xp desktop. its fully installed now by the way... :-( > how then can i access the recovery partition? i think i saw a small partition [quoted text clipped - 48 lines] >>>> >>>> -Michael this is what happened. my computer is pre-installed with vista. but i was stupid enough not to notice that i was installing xp in the same partition with vista. now i cant access vista. im trying to uninstall xp but the computer doesnt respond since it is not an upgrade, rather a fresh install. the thing is, i installed XP using a folder named "XP" and not "Windows". do you think my vista is still working? if so, can i edit boot.ini so that i can also boot to vista? > * dyayroos: > > i was trying to install windows xp along with vista. but i didnt notice that [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > -Michael > i was trying to install windows xp along with vista. but i didnt notice that > i installed it in the same partition as with vista... now my registry is > jammed. can anyone help? how can i uninstall xp? or are there any other > options? thans Some accidents inflict only minor injuries -- others are fatal. Yours falls closer to the latter category. It is generally recommended in a dual boot setup, to install the older OS first, and let the newer one create the dual boot scenario. You did it the other way around. Even if you had used separate partitions, the Vista boot sequence probably would have been clobbered, but that repair is fairly simple, and has been well documented in this an similar newsgroups. In you case, it sounds like a clean install of XP is needed, followed by a clean install of Vista in a separate partition. Vista will recognize the existence of XP and set things up properly. There may be other ways out of your situation, but I would just start over from scratch. -- Jay. (remove dashes for legal email address) |
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