Comments on: How to Uninstall and Remove Windows 7 or Vista Leaving Windows XP on Dual Boot System

By: Farhan

Farhan — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:39:34 +0000

Thanks a lot, it worked!

By: rimon1234

rimon1234 — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:09:24 +0000

thanks very much, used norton partition manager for format. from spain

By: Angel

Angel — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:50:27 +0000

it tells me that bootsect.exe is not a Win32 application… what can i do?

By: sblended

sblended — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:52:13 +0000

One thing that worked for me in short:

From the folder’s properties click Advanced.

Change owner to the one currently logged in.
*Remember to check “Replace owner on subcontainers and odjects”.

Close and reopen properties and again click Advanced.

Remove ALL users’ permissions on the folder and then add the one currently logged in and assign full permissions.
*Remember to check “Replace all child object permissions with inheritable permissions from this object”

Hope it helps

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:56:13 +0000

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

worked like a charm and couldn’t be easier! Great help, Thanks again!

By: Moahmed

Moahmed — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:14:55 +0000

I have installed windows7 but i want unistall winsows7 and intall windows xp. so how to unistall windows 7 ?

By: tito

tito — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:18:24 +0000

what if i used the EASEUS partitioning manager to format the partition which contains the windows vista only? do i need to repair the MBR?

By: hvolmer

hvolmer — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:17:19 +0000

One note on this. If your XP is 32-bit and your W7 is 64-bit, you can’t run the bootsect.exe from the W7 DVD. I happened to have a Vista-32 DVD which did the trick though. Good luck.

By: Vishnu Raj

Vishnu Raj — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:22:06 +0000

Thank u very much frndddddddddd

By: Dr. Evil

Dr. Evil — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:35:20 +0000

Thank you very much. These instructions worked perfectly for me.

By: StoR@GE

StoR@GE — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:02:26 +0000

Thanks…It work’s for me!!!

By: selder

selder — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:59:52 +0000

I’ve got an error message:

“C: (\\?\Volume{9575cecd-2649-11de-9f58-806d6172696f})
Updated NTFS filesystem bootcode. The update may be unreliable since the volume could not be dismounted during the update: Access is denied.”

Any ideas?

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:01:55 +0000

I have 3 versions of Vista installed. two that don’t work correctly. Can I use the method you have to remove the two versions of visa not working correctly.

By: Guy

Guy — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:04:56 +0000

Thanks! Worked like a charm. Had to remove windows 7 eval copy to install server 203 for a tafe assessment, thought i was going to be stuck with the windows 7 boot 4ver!
thanks again!

By: Gez

Gez — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:03:20 +0000

Nice one. This helped me remove the Win 7 eval I’d installed. M$ recommended removal was format the HDD! Back to good old XP for me.

By: Dries

Dries — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:58:59 +0000

Btw, maybe it will work without entirely formatting the partition…