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Boot manager problem. Very annoying.
Every time I boot my machine (dual boot - 2 x vista 32 home
Premium), the boot manager tries to take me into an incomplete, and unwanted, vista setup option which then hangs the machine. I want to delete that option from the boot manager but it doesn't appear in bcdedit, and that is about as far as my technical knowledge goes. Anyone know how to get rid of an unwanted vista setup option from the bm? -- Alan LeHun |
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Boot manager problem. Very annoying.
Hi,
Click start, type msconfig and hit the enter key. Click continue at the UAC prompt. Go to the boot tab, select the correct boot line and then 'set as default'. Click on the unwanted one and delete it. Click apply/ok and reboot. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org "Alan LeHun" wrote in message ... Every time I boot my machine (dual boot - 2 x vista 32 home Premium), the boot manager tries to take me into an incomplete, and unwanted, vista setup option which then hangs the machine. I want to delete that option from the boot manager but it doesn't appear in bcdedit, and that is about as far as my technical knowledge goes. Anyone know how to get rid of an unwanted vista setup option from the bm? -- Alan LeHun |
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Boot manager problem. Very annoying.
Hi,
Click start, type msconfig and hit the enter key. Click continue at the UAC prompt. Go to the boot tab, select the correct boot line and then 'set as default'. Click on the unwanted one and delete it. Click apply/ok and reboot. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org "Alan LeHun" wrote in message ... Every time I boot my machine (dual boot - 2 x vista 32 home Premium), the boot manager tries to take me into an incomplete, and unwanted, vista setup option which then hangs the machine. I want to delete that option from the boot manager but it doesn't appear in bcdedit, and that is about as far as my technical knowledge goes. Anyone know how to get rid of an unwanted vista setup option from the bm? -- Alan LeHun |
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Boot manager problem. Very annoying.
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Boot manager problem. Very annoying.
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Boot manager problem. Very annoying.
Hi, Alan.
Vista does not use Boot.ini at all - except when "previous version of Windows" is chosen from the OS menu. It also does not use NTLDR or NTDETECT.COM. All 3 of these files can be deleted from your System Partition (typically Drive C:, but not always). I assume that you also have already deleted WinXP's entire \Windows folder tree, since that also is now ignored. Since you are familiar with bcdedit.exe, you can use it to remove the entire entry for "Windows Legacy OS Loader" from the BCD. RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64 "Alan LeHun" wrote in message ... In article , says... Click start, type msconfig and hit the enter key. Click continue at the UAC prompt. Go to the boot tab, select the correct boot line and then 'set as default'. Click on the unwanted one and delete it. Click apply/ok and reboot. Thanks Rick. I misreported the original problem however, in that the offending setup entry was actually for XP which I no longer use. I think the problem lies with the boot.ini file on my root drive which I 'believe' I can just delete and be done with. (I'm using only vista atm) -- Alan LeHun |
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Boot manager problem. Very annoying.
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Boot manager problem. Very annoying.
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Boot manager problem. Very annoying.
Hi, Alan.
You're welcome, of course. Glad you got it solved - and thanks for the feedback. ;) RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64 "Alan LeHun" wrote in message ... In article , says... Vista does not use Boot.ini at all - except when "previous version of Windows" is chosen from the OS menu. It also does not use NTLDR or NTDETECT.COM. All 3 of these files can be deleted from your System Partition (typically Drive C:, but not always). G in my case. Deleting boot.ini solved the issue. I have now searched for NTLDR and NTDETECT but they are not present on this mc. I assume that you also have already deleted WinXP's entire \Windows folder tree, since that also is now ignored. Many moons ago, but this installation setup option never appeared until recently. Since you are familiar with bcdedit.exe, you can use it to remove the entire entry for "Windows Legacy OS Loader" from the BCD. I'm a lot more familiar now. I didn't know anything about it yesterday morning. Thank you, and Rick, for the help. -- Alan LeHun |
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