before the dual boot is initiated, will provide a means of restoring XP without a Repair install.
This may just be my machine but when I setup a dual boot with Win XP and Win Vista I have problems when removing vista. Because Win XP uses the boot.ini that we all know and love, and vista uses something different (not completely sure of the new name) it causes a glitch. When I go to format my secondary HD with Vista installed the reminants of Vista's boot file remains. Meaning that when the machine boot's up the NT Loader is still looking for Vista and when it can't find Vista I get an error screen that allows me to choose "start older version of Windows".
To get rid of this screen I need to do a repair of XP this does get rid of Vista's boot file and that screen. However the problem with the repair is that XP reverts back to install specs. Then I have to go back and reinstall all the updates that weren't included when I bought the OS, and I bought it before SP2 was released. So you can imagine that's a lot of updates. Does anybody know what I'm talking about or better yet found a way around the problem. Thanks.

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