If burning it doesn't work, you can also use emulation software (alcohol 120%, Daemon tools, etc...) to install Vista or at least, that's how I understand it. I installed from a DVD.
Keep in mind....
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Originally Posted by Official line from Microsoft
"Once you install Windows Vista Beta 2 you cannot roll back to the previous operating system installation - you will either have to acquire and install the final released edition of Windows Vista or reinstall a previous edition of Windows."
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Vista
did write a number of files to the drive where XP resides when I installed. I'm not sitting in front of my home pc, but off the top of my head, I believe there were four or five and all of them (as far as I know) were related to the Vista's new boot loader.
It's not that big a deal, but it was slightly irritating. I don't remember any of the Linux distros I've installed this past year doing that...
When you're done playing with Vista (and you will be...soon), there are some hoops you'll have to jump through to get everything back to normal...assuming you're not going to just format everything and start from scratch.
This was posted on planetAMD64 and assumes that you're trying to rollback your pc to a previous installation of XP.
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Boot your computer in to Windows XP.
2. Ensure you have the Vista DVD image emulated or Vista DVD in the drive.
3. Go to “Start” and “Run”. Type in “e:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt52 ALL /force” (without quotes, and replacing e: with the drive letter of your physical/emulated DVD drive.
4. Restart the computer, and you will notice the boot selection menu is gone.
5. Format the partition/drive where you had Vista installed.
6. Remove two files (Boot.BAK & Bootsect.BAK) on your XP drive’s root folder (C: ), these were backup files of your previous bootloader, now no longer useful.
7. Restart to ensure it still works.
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Later on in the thread, Pyr0 suggested an alternate method.
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with vista still fully installed, boot to your XP installation
go to start -> run and type "c:\boot\fixntfs -xp" (without the quotes) click ok, and reboot the system
when the system reboots you should notice the bootloader has gone
boot back into xp again and go to disk management
select the drive you have vista installed on, right click it and select format.
then, go to windows explorer and delete these files from the root of your xp drive or partition:
boot (folder)
boot.bak
bootmgr
bootsect.bak
right click on 'My Computer',
select properties -> advanced -> startup and recovery settings, and under system startup, make sure that windows xp is selected as the default
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I've been playing with Vista since its initial release and I'm not really all that impressed with it. It's pretty and I like a number of the changes Microsoft has implemented, but it's not enough to justify taking up such valuable real estate....valuable Ubuntu real estate....
