Guest Julsie Posted September 3, 2007 Posted September 3, 2007 I would really like some advice. I have been running Windows XP professional quite happily for some time on a dual processor computer to large hard drives. A few weeks ago I installed Vista on a separate Dr. Recently, I have managed to update all my programs and hardware so that Vista (business) is working very well for me and I would be quite happy to removed XP from my computer. Since installing Vista in addition to XP I am presented with a choice at boot up to either open "previous operating system" or "Vista" and have more often than not chosen to boot into Vista [ which will occur automatically if I did not choose XP]. I thought that all I would need to do would be to format my C Drive and that my Q drive , on which Vista is installed would probably be renamed automatically to C or something like that. However, a knowledgeable friend of mine informed me that if I simply formatted the C Dr on which XP is installed, my computer may not start at all because the ini files[boot files] were probably on the C drive. Does this mean that I had best leave things alone and continue working with Vista as I have done whilst leaving the installation of XP completely alone as it is? Any opinions and/or advice would be sincerely appreciated. I hope my explanation and comments have not been too confusing
Guest P. Di Stolfo Posted September 3, 2007 Posted September 3, 2007 Re: Removing XP Hello, it's true that, as far as I know, Vista needs booting files from the old XP partition. Options on what you could do: - Delete the booting entry, so that it seems as though Vista is the only operating system: http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=79102 and the program http://www.vistabootpro.org - Delete all but some files Vista needs on the XP partition: http://forums.cnet.com/5208-12546_102-0.html?forumID=133&threadID=261689&messageID=2570375 Hope this helps. Greetings, P. Di Stolfo -- //----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- // http://blog.lysorp.com - small Windows Blog in German language //----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Julsie" <Julsie@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:E8E825A7-6D53-4AAC-8500-749083C8DB0D@microsoft.com... >I would really like some advice. I have been running Windows XP >professional > quite happily for some time on a dual processor computer to large hard > drives. A few weeks ago I installed Vista on a separate Dr. Recently, I > have > managed to update all my programs and hardware so that Vista (business) is > working very well for me and I would be quite happy to removed XP from my > computer. > Since installing Vista in addition to XP I am presented with a choice at > boot up to either open "previous operating system" or "Vista" and have > more > often than not chosen to boot into Vista [ which will occur automatically > if > I did not choose XP]. > > I thought that all I would need to do would be to format my C Drive and > that > my Q drive , on which Vista is installed would probably be renamed > automatically to C or something like that. > However, a knowledgeable friend of mine informed me that if I simply > formatted the C Dr on which XP is installed, my computer may not start at > all > because the ini files[boot files] were probably on the C drive. > Does this mean that I had best leave things alone and continue working > with > Vista as I have done whilst leaving the installation of XP completely > alone > as it is? > > Any opinions and/or advice would be sincerely appreciated. > I hope my explanation and comments have not been too confusing
Guest Paul Randall Posted September 3, 2007 Posted September 3, 2007 Re: Removing XP Hopefully someone will jump in and tell me if I'm wrong. I think you installed Vista on a partition whose drive letter was Q:. A whole bunch of Vista's registry entries point to files on drive Q:. It seems to me that if you do anything that changes the drive letter of this partition, Vista will choke because so many things cannot be found on drive Q:. -Paul Randall "Julsie" <Julsie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:E8E825A7-6D53-4AAC-8500-749083C8DB0D@microsoft.com... >I would really like some advice. I have been running Windows XP >professional > quite happily for some time on a dual processor computer to large hard > drives. A few weeks ago I installed Vista on a separate Dr. Recently, I > have > managed to update all my programs and hardware so that Vista (business) is > working very well for me and I would be quite happy to removed XP from my > computer. > Since installing Vista in addition to XP I am presented with a choice at > boot up to either open "previous operating system" or "Vista" and have > more > often than not chosen to boot into Vista [ which will occur automatically > if > I did not choose XP]. > > I thought that all I would need to do would be to format my C Drive and > that > my Q drive , on which Vista is installed would probably be renamed > automatically to C or something like that. > However, a knowledgeable friend of mine informed me that if I simply > formatted the C Dr on which XP is installed, my computer may not start at > all > because the ini files[boot files] were probably on the C drive. > Does this mean that I had best leave things alone and continue working > with > Vista as I have done whilst leaving the installation of XP completely > alone > as it is? > > Any opinions and/or advice would be sincerely appreciated. > I hope my explanation and comments have not been too confusing
Guest Script Posted September 3, 2007 Posted September 3, 2007 RE: Removing XP Your "friend" is correct; Paul Randall's post is correct; P. Di Stolfo's url to delete XP files from a running Vista looks correct (haven't had to do it, myself. Vista shouldn't let you delete any System Files affecting Vista.). IF you want to reclaim the old space, then you could resize the former XP partition to only its necessary size, see this page for free trial sotware: (works great) http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html then use Vista to make another partition in the freed space for (whatever) use. "Julsie" wrote: > I would really like some advice. I have been running Windows XP professional > quite happily for some time on a dual processor computer to large hard > drives. A few weeks ago I installed Vista on a separate Dr. Recently, I have > managed to update all my programs and hardware so that Vista (business) is > working very well for me and I would be quite happy to removed XP from my > computer. > Since installing Vista in addition to XP I am presented with a choice at > boot up to either open "previous operating system" or "Vista" and have more > often than not chosen to boot into Vista [ which will occur automatically if > I did not choose XP]. > > I thought that all I would need to do would be to format my C Drive and that > my Q drive , on which Vista is installed would probably be renamed > automatically to C or something like that. > However, a knowledgeable friend of mine informed me that if I simply > formatted the C Dr on which XP is installed, my computer may not start at all > because the ini files[boot files] were probably on the C drive. > Does this mean that I had best leave things alone and continue working with > Vista as I have done whilst leaving the installation of XP completely alone > as it is? > > Any opinions and/or advice would be sincerely appreciated. > I hope my explanation and comments have not been too confusing
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