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    Uninstall Windows XP MCE 2005 and keep Vista Home Premium

    Discussion in 'HP' started by sandesign, Aug 25, 2007.

  1. sandesign

    sandesign Notebook Consultant

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    Hi to all.

    I have a HP Pavilion 8320us entertainment notebook, with a dual boot configuration. It came with Windows XP MCE 2005, and then installed Vista Home Premium 32 bit on the second hard drive. I've been using Vista for 6 months now with no problems :D , and I don't boot into XP anymore. I want to recover that disc space and only keep Vista.

    Is there any way to achieve this easily? :confused:

    Thanks in advance...

    PD: excuse my english... :eek:
     
    sandesign, Aug 25, 2007
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  2. miner

    miner Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    The easiest way would be to use a utility like Easy BCD or Vistaboot Pro and remove the entry for XP. This will remove the boot menu asking which OS to boot. Next you can just reformat the XP partition from 'Computer'(make sure you save/move your data from that partition before reformatting)
     
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