Uninstall Windows XP

[svmali84]

Hi All,
Hope u all doing well.
From last few days I have troubleshoot to Reinstall XP.
I have Windows XP on one drive and Vista on another drive.I want to format the XP drive and install it again.But i dont want to Remove vista.
Anyone knows how can I do this ? Please help

[jlreich]

If they are on separate physical drives just unhook the drive with vista on it while you reinstall XP. That takes vista out of the picture and makes sure you don't delete it accidentally.

If the new install of XP is in the same location as it was before you shouldn't have any other issues. However, if you do run into booting issues you will need to have a vista install disk in order to run the startup repair utility to bring back full functionality to both OS's. This may happen if vista decided to install boot files to the drive with XP on it. But as long as you have a vista install disk you will be fine.

If that doesn't answer your questions what problems exactly are you running into?

[Paul Komski]

Another approach after you reinstall XP as already suggested it to download and run VistaBootPro (http://www.vistabootpro.org/)from the new XP installation after you add back the Vista drive.

[jlreich]

I forgot about VistaBootPro. I have it downloaded but never had occasion to use it yet.