Uninstall Windows 7
Windows 7 is still in beta as all of us know and there are bugs which can be frustrating. If you have installed windows 7 with Windows XP (Dual boot), you can uninstall it by using these steps.
1. Start Windows XP.
2. Insert Windows 7 ISO DVD into DVD drive.
3. Press ‘Win + R’ to open Run command prompt.
4. Type [DVD Drive Letter]:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt52 ALL /force and click on OK.
Note: Add the name of your DVD drive in [DVD Drive Letter] field.
5. Remove DVD from your drive and reboot the system.
6. Your computer will boot up with Windows XP installation.
7. Now you can either format the drive containing Windows 7 or manually remove files of Windows 7.
8. Finally remove Boot.BAK and BootSect.BAK from root system folder of Windows XP. Don’t delete these files if you have another operating system installed other than Windows XP.
This will hopefully uninstall windows 7 on your system. Note: this guide only works if you are uninstalling windows 7 on a dual-boot pc (Installed with windows xp)
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Hi There,
Several days ago I installed Windows 7 on my machine. When I installed it, I choose Upgrade instead of CUSTOM (Big mistake). Now I would like to remove Windows 7 and get back to Vista Pro.
Before Vista Pro I had Windows XP Pro. The problem I have with Vista is an upgrade version. I don’t have the full version.
Anybody could help me on this? I’m looking for an uninstall procedure
Thank you,
Michgauth
@Michguath: I’ll look into it.
first part of the procedure worked just fine
(boot menu was gone, and xp started right away)
2nd wasnt – i couldnt format the drive from inside the system
what i did was, i booted minipe and formated it from there
(the live cd is only loaded into the ram)
the start/run command was useful though
Thanks a lot for the instructions, I uninstalled windows 7 successfully.
Hello,
I tried all you’ve listed bellow and no success.Please can anybody help me with this problem? I have installed windows 7 on a fresh hard disk no other windows are no dual boot just windows 7 on my hard drive. And now I cannot format or erase windows 7 and install windows XP. Please let me know asap if anybody can help me with that.
Thank you in advance
Sasha
yeah it worked with mine too Thank you so much!!! it was very easy thank you!!!
i did all and worked,but step 7…..i tried to install win 7 on second partion. after first restart a problem occured…and nothing worked after (repair,reinstall). now i have 12.8 Gb with that bullshit. i cannot format entire partition because i have many doc and personal files ~90 Gb. at startup boot menu dissapear. how can i delete them? are NTFS protected files…..i tried to use disk shredder…but doesn’t work “access is denied”