Life of an Admin

I installed Windows 7 on another partition to play around and then comes the time to let go of it.(i love it, but its trial version and i cannot move all my programs and data to it. so will wait till release).

To do so, we have to fix the boot menu and remove the files from the partition or format the partition.

1. Boot up and log on to Windows XP.
2. Insert Windows 7 DVD disc.
3. Open command prompt and type the following command and press enter:

[DVD Drive Letter]:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt52 ALL /force

eg.

If the DVD drive is D:, then enter

D:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt52 ALL /force

The step will remove the boot menu to select operating system which shows up at the boot time.

4. Remove the disc and restart the computer. Computer will start with XP.
5. Manually remove files and folders of Windows 7, including Windows, Program Files and Users folder. You can format the partition also, if you have no other data on it and you created it just for windows 7.

If you have a dual boot Vista/Windows7 and want to remove windows 7, then replace the NT52 with NT60. NT52 is the MBR (Master Boot Record) used by Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, while Windows Vista uses NT60