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Vista beta2 cannot be deleted

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ratedrsuperstar Original post #1
Nov 4, 2006 at 11:35 PM
plz help me.I have vista beta2 installed in another drive i also have windows xp in c:.so after the evaluation period got over i wanted to delete it but it cannot be deleted plz help.
Vishal Gupta
Nov 5, 2006 at 12:47 AM
boot using XP Setup CD and enter into Recovery Console, now give following commands:

fixmbr
fixboot


It'll remove the new Vista Loader. Not u can safely boot into XP and then format the partition, where u installed Vista ;)
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gxsaurav #3
Nov 5, 2006 at 2:20 AM
if u have not already done the above mentions method

simply put the vista beta 2 dvd in the drive, then start->

E:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt52 ALL /force

now reboot, & vista will be removed from the MBR, in a safe way, now just format the partition