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Vista Installation Problem

Mar 2, 2007 8:19PM PST

I've been trying to help someone with a clean install of Vista on a homebuild that was running XP, but I'm having trouble with one part of the installation. When installing Vista, the selection to format the hard drive was selected which should have erased all data on the hard drive before installation of Vista proceeded. Unfortunatly, that didn't happen, Vista just renamed all of the old files. Now the computers start screen shows both XP and Vista as OS choices, but XP can't be booted into. Vista, however, runs good. How do I convince the machine that it can't dual boot?

System Info:
Gigabyte GA-8I945P-G mobo
P4 630 3.0GHz CPU
Maxtor 300Gb PATA HDD
1.5Gb Corsair ram
Memorex 16X DL DVD/CD-RW
ATI X1300 PCIe Video Card

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