I'm not sure why you say it's not that simple unless you had a corrupt
partition. I just removed Vista from a test box the other day. I changed
the BIOS to boot off of the CD drive, inserted a bootable XP disk. When XP
showed the drives, I highlighted the C partition, deleted it, then was able
to format it and install XP. Simple process. Maybe partition magic was
the problem. For most users who do vanilla installs, going back to XP is
simple.
"David A. Spicer" <vista_ultimate_fan@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> 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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> We are everywhere.
>
>
>
> "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
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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.
>>
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