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Un instal windows 8

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Last response: April 1, 2012 5:03 PM in Windows 8

D4daisy

March 23, 2012 5:07:16 PM

I wish to un instal windows 8 customer preview and re instal vista on my acer laptop. How do I do this?

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danny2000

March 23, 2012 5:11:42 PM

Did you do an upgrade installation? A dual boot?
Or a clean installation of Windows 8?

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Brett928S2

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March 23, 2012 5:18:04 PM

Hi

There is no uninstall...you just install your Vista over the top from DOS and format everything...

All the best Brett

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danny2000

March 23, 2012 5:34:15 PM

Like I asked above, what type of installation did you do for your Windows 8 CP?

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D4daisy

March 30, 2012 6:37:25 PM

2414,2,719378 said:

Did you do an upgrade installation? A dual boot?
Or a clean installation of Windows 8?[/q
Unfortunately a clean installation

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D4daisy

March 30, 2012 6:40:52 PM

danny2000 said:

Like I asked above, what type of installation did you do for your Windows 8 CP?

a clean installation

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price_th

March 30, 2012 7:49:27 PM

Delete the partitions and reinstall is your only option.

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danny2000

April 1, 2012 2:13:08 AM

D4daisy said:

a clean installation

Yes you will have to do a clean installation since you wiped-out Vista when you installed Windows 8 C.P. on the same partition as Vista was on.

Do you have the recovery partition still on the hard drive or the VISTA DVD?

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D4daisy

April 1, 2012 5:01:39 PM

No, I do not have the recovery partition on the hard drive.

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D4daisy

April 1, 2012 5:03:18 PM

price_th said:

Delete the partitions and reinstall is your only option.

How do I delete the partitions?

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