How to uninstall a different installation of Vista

I created a second installation of Vist 64 on my computer and now I want to remove it. How di I do that?

Hello

·        Have you installed the second installation of vista in the different hard drive or the same hard drive?

·        In which partition you installed the second operating system vista you want to delete the system?

·        What is the other

I suggest that you remove the boot sequence for the system and then manually delete the system files. Follow the steps mentioned below to remove the boot sequence.

a. click on Start menu and type msconfig in the start search box and press on enter.

b. click on the Startup tab and click on the operating system of vista you don't want on the system and click on the button Delete.

Note: Make sure before you delete the boot entry of the operating system it is the operating system that youwant to remove the system.

c. now the operating system will be removed from the boot sequence.

d. now restart the computer and boot to the desktop and go to the drive where the vista 64-bit operating system is installed.

e. remove the files that are present in the disk manually to completely remove the operating system.

Thanks and regards.

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