My experience has been, it's not that simple. I had to boot from a DOS boot
disk and use FDISK to properly remove the Vista Non-DOS NTFS partition. A
DOS boot disk can be obtained at
www.bootdisk.com if needed. Otherwise
Partition Magic (in XP) showed the partition as being BAD. Apparently Vista
does something different in making the partition that XP can not undo. It
was all for nothing though. After a few days using XP, I missed Vista and
came back :-)
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"Bill Yanaire" <bill@yanaire.com> wrote in message
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> Boot off the your XP CD. Make sure that the Boot device in the BIOS is
> set to the CD/DVD drive. Delete the partition and start over.
>
> Remember to backup your data prior to doing this.
>
>
> "edielou2" <edielou2@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news
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>> When I try to do a backup my computer stops responding and as far as I
>> can
>> tell there is no Windows. old folder. Why don't you have a separate cd
>> disk
>> to remove Vista? Now I'm going to have to take my computer to get it
>> repaired.
>
>