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I installed Vista 32 bit over Windows Media as an upgrade but it left the original operating system. I have to choose Vist on each boot. How do I remove the old operating system?
-- Kilroy Was Here

Why do you want to do an upgrade, Windows Vista will expire in Jan and not be runable after that time. Be lucky that you still have both IOS's. Many people lost theirs and cannot boot to anything but Vista.
"Kilroy Was Here" wrote:

I installed Vista 32 bit over Windows Media as an upgrade but it left the original operating system. I have to choose Vist on each boot. How do I remove the old operating system?
-- Kilroy Was Here

Why would you want to get rid of your OS. Vista will expire once the Retail version comes out,then you'll have to buy it. Hang on to you will most likely need it later. Also, you should feel lucky, alot of us that THOUGHT Vista would dual boot, took over our boot loaders and we cannot get into our XP systems, at all! "Kilroy Was Here" wrote:

I installed Vista 32 bit over Windows Media as an upgrade but it left the original operating system. I have to choose Vist on each boot. How do I remove the old operating system?
-- Kilroy Was Here

if my post dublicates its because the system said it had an error... Also an Upgrade does leave the original system, thats why its better to do a clean install---it starts FRESH. "missingnojo" wrote:

Why do you want to do an upgrade, Windows Vista will expire in Jan and not be runable after that time. Be lucky that you still have both IOS's. Many people lost theirs and cannot boot to anything but Vista.
"Kilroy Was Here" wrote:
I installed Vista 32 bit over Windows Media as an upgrade but it left the original operating system. I have to choose Vist on each boot. How do I remove the old operating system?
-- Kilroy Was Here

Nice answer missingnojo. Very helpful.
I have the same question. XP on my primary partition. How does one get an OS off a primary? Can I safe mode command prompt and format?
Please do not answer with another question....
Best,
"Kilroy Was Here" wrote:

I installed Vista 32 bit over Windows Media as an upgrade but it left the original operating system. I have to choose Vist on each boot. How do I remove the old operating system?
-- Kilroy Was Here

I had installed Vista and it took over my boot loader rendering my Xp partition usless except for my data-all that was still there. I ended up backing up all my data that I wanted to keep from my XP partition and I deleted my partitions where XP was from Administrator tools-Computer Management - disk management. Then I put in my XP install cd and told it to install a copy of XP, when it got to the part where I got to choice the partition I deleted the Vista Partition( Xp will not install as long as Vista is on there!) and then choice the partition I wanted XP to be on, and installed it. I then installed Vista on a second hard drive(Read the directions!) on How to install Vista- I didn't do that the first time and I beleive that is where many people are messing up.. YOU MUST choose custom to install on a a per determined partition. I choose a different harddrive just to be safe- but I can now dual boot my XP and Vista... Some one else can try the same hard drive-- different partition. I am going to spend days if not weeks restoring all my stuff. Hope this helps.
"tarpon" wrote:

Nice answer missingnojo. Very helpful.
I have the same question. XP on my primary partition. How does one get an OS off a primary? Can I safe mode command prompt and format?
Please do not answer with another question....
Best,
"Kilroy Was Here" wrote:
I installed Vista 32 bit over Windows Media as an upgrade but it left the original operating system. I have to choose Vist on each boot. How do I remove the old operating system?
-- Kilroy Was Here

One little thing. Vista Beta 2 expires 31 May 2007, not in January.
"missingnojo" wrote:

Why do you want to do an upgrade, Windows Vista will expire in Jan and not be runable after that time. Be lucky that you still have both IOS's. Many people lost theirs and cannot boot to anything but Vista.
"Kilroy Was Here" wrote:
I installed Vista 32 bit over Windows Media as an upgrade but it left the original operating system. I have to choose Vist on each boot. How do I remove the old operating system?
-- Kilroy Was Here

Thats what the license says, but it will expire as soon as Vista hits the public market. They are just covering their butts by making it that long, seriuosly - Do you think they are going to wait till May 2007 to release Vista? NOT! It will be released this year, and if Vista doesdn't have any major bugs in it- they will release it like the did XP- still had bugs until SP1, and sp2 for that fact. We are just the test run, they are really close to releasing it, it was suppose to already be on the market. But Microsoft expires their produst early all the time... Keep another OS! I got mine to Dual boot now, and All the bugs I did have are gone except for getting my soundcard to be recongnised by Vista. I have a CS Live 24 bit. Thamks for commenting...
"Mark D. VandenBerg" wrote:

One little thing. Vista Beta 2 expires 31 May 2007, not in January.
"missingnojo" wrote:
Why do you want to do an upgrade, Windows Vista will expire in Jan and not be runable after that time. Be lucky that you still have both IOS's. Many people lost theirs and cannot boot to anything but Vista.
"Kilroy Was Here" wrote:
I installed Vista 32 bit over Windows Media as an upgrade but it left the original operating system. I have to choose Vist on each boot. How do I remove the old operating system?
-- Kilroy Was Here