right i installed a copy of vista on my pc the version after the beta one, anyway dosn't matter. Right managed to remove it from the boot menu using fixntfs.exe and now i want to make sure its totally clear of my comp so that i can reinstall without it coming up time periord expired use vista with reduced functionality. does anyone know it it rights to any registers in windows. Oh i installed it on my hdd0 on partition 2 which has been formated and i have removed all the boot.bck etc from my c partition. Please help
chris5126 26 Posting Pro in Training
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
stick in the vista full edition cd then just delete any existing partition and then make and format a new one
chris5126 26 Posting Pro in Training
well have tried that but vista must still be lurking somewhere in my windows xp partition as when i reinstalled and rebooted it had two verision of windows vista to start but only one would work as the other files had been deleted.
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
if that happens then open a command prompt and do fdisk /mbr then boot off of your cd and do fixmbr
chris5126 26 Posting Pro in Training
no i think i am explaing wrong i have managed to get it to boot correctly using fixntfs but vista uses a different boot config so fix mbr wont work vista must have keft some trace somewhere on my comp which i need to delete
chris5126 26 Posting Pro in Training
prob a registery entry so that if vista rc2 expiers u cant just reinstall it and use it again
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