I recently upgraded an XP SP2 system with the Vista RTM. For a variety of reasons, it is necessary for me to restore my latest XP backup.
Thanks to others on the forum, I downloaded the NT backup utility for Vista and am about ready to do the restore.
Question:
1. Will simply doing a brute-force restore get rid of everything relating to Vista?
2. Do I have to tangle with Vista boot managers, etc.?
3. Do I need to do a format, and if how, how to do it? It doesn't look like the NT backup utility for Vista has a format before restore feature.
Thanks!
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Well the NT backup utility isn't the best tool for this kind of job. Making a backup with disk imaging software like Norton Ghost would have been wiser.
Considering the trouble you are facing, I would simply boot up the Windows XP setup and choose to reformat the entire drive.
Just make a backup of all your important data like documents and source code.
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