Removing Vista from Your Dual-Boot System

Removing Vista from a dual-boot system probably sounds like a strange thing to do. But
under some circumstances, it can be necessary. Lets say you have your XP system and
youve been running a beta/RC1 version of Vista in a dual-boot configuration. As the
date approaches for the OS to be out of date, you might want to just go back to XP.
Long Zheng(www.istartedsomething.com) give us the steps we need to uninstall Vista
from our dual boot situation:

After playing around with Vista for a few days, you may want to remove it from your sys-
tem, and reclaim the hard drive space. Microsoft has made this step very simple as well.
1.Boot your computer in to Windows XP.
2.Ensure you have the Vista DVD image emulated or in the DVD drive.
3.Go to Startand Run. Type in
e:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt52 ALL /force
(replacing e: with the drive letter of your Vista DVD).
4.Restart the computer, and you will notice the boot selection menu is gone.
5.Format the partition/drive where you had Vista installed.
6.Remove two files (Boot.BAK & Bootsect.BAK) on your XP drive™s root folder (C:),
these were backup files of your previous bootloader, now no longer useful.
7.Optional: Restart to ensure it still works.
8.Use your partition software to merge your partitions together.
And now you have returned your computer to its previous state, without Vista and with-
out the new bootloader. If anyone has any issues, please post it in comments and try
to resolve it.