Removing Vista from Your Dual-Boot System

If you use Windows Vista with XP simultaneously then removing Vista from this dual-boot system probably sounds like a strange thing to do. But due to any reason you might need to remove Vista from your System.

Let’s say your Hard drive is running out of space and you may want to remove Vista from your system, to reclaim the hard drive space.

Here are the few easy steps we need to follow to uninstall Vista from the dual-boot situation:

1. Boot your computer in to Windows XP.
2. Insert Vista DVD in the DVD drive.
3. Now Go to “Start” and “Run”.

Type in
X:bootbootsect.exe /nt52 ALL /force
(replacing X: with the drive letter of your Vista DVD Drive).

4. Restart the computer, and you will notice the boot selection menu is now gone.

5. If you had Vista on a separate partition you may now format that partition/drive.

6. After Restart, now Remove two files (Boot.BAK & Bootsect.BAK) from your XP drive’s root folder (C:)
(These were backup files of your previous bootloader, which are now no longer useful.)

7. Restart the system to ensure it still works.

You now have returned your computer to its previous state with Windows XP only, without Vista and without the new bootloader.