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    DAMNIT! How do I uninstall Vista! Bad prolems!

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by washington101, Jul 28, 2007.

  1. washington101

    washington101 Notebook Consultant

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    Hey guys,
    I tried to install some drivers from laptopvideo or whatever it is called. It worked, but then for some reason, wi-fi stopped in vista, and vista would never shut down. I did a driver rollback, which changed my drivers back to 101.34, but my wifi problems did not get fixed. I did a restore session to before I installed the new drivers and still, no wifi and windows wants to install some drivers for some phantom device.
    Everything works fine on the OS 10 side though. That is what I am using now. I would like to uninstall Vista and then reinstall it through bootcamp. Could someone please tell me how to uninstall vista and make my computer just like when I first got it? Thanks. I am very frustrated right now! :mad:
     
  2. pinwanger

    pinwanger Notebook Consultant

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    you can just try uninstall both wifi and video drivers in safe mode, then pop in the drivers CD for bootcamp after reboot.
     
  3. washington101

    washington101 Notebook Consultant

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    I no longer have the driver cd for bootcamp.
     
  4. bczera

    bczera Notebook Geek

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    if you have a pendrive you can save the drivers on it with bootcamp, you just need to look for it
     
  5. pinwanger

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    burn another one? you going to need it anyway if you are planning on reinstalling.
     
  6. washington101

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    I know i have to burn another one. That will not be a problem. But, I need you guys to tell me how to go about uninstalling windows.
     
  7. cashmonee

    cashmonee Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    Well, I believe that if you put the Vista DVD in the drive and choose to boot to Windows, it should give the option then to boot the DVD, and you can unistall and format that way. Alternatively, you can use the Boot Camp Assistant in OS X to just wipe that partition and start over from scratch.
     
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    Xander Paranoid Android

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    The directions for this are in the Boot Camp Beta Setup Guide [PDF]. The section is appropriately labeled "Removing Windows from Your Computer".
     
  9. washington101

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    Thanks. You guys are a tough crowd!