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Dual Boot Uninstall Question
Hi there,
I had installed Vista on my D drive with XP remaining on my C drive. I have now formatted the D drive. But I still get a bootup message asking me to choose either Vista or my legacy Windows. How do I get rid of that screen? I presume there's a file on C that got put there when I installed Vista on the C drive. Do I just delete that file? What is the file name? Thanks for the help! Jason |
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Dual Boot Uninstall Question
Hi Jason,
The file is boot.ini, which in XP you can edit but in Vista is a little different. Your best bet though would be to boot from your Windows XP CD into the Windows Recovery Console, then run FIXBOOT. That should do it for you. Good luck! M -- MDG, MCT MCSA (2003), MCSA (2000), MCDST. Certified Small Business Specialist Visit my blog at http://www.mitpro.ca/Blogs/tabid/59/...2/Default.aspx "Jason Saffer" wrote: Hi there, I had installed Vista on my D drive with XP remaining on my C drive. I have now formatted the D drive. But I still get a bootup message asking me to choose either Vista or my legacy Windows. How do I get rid of that screen? I presume there's a file on C that got put there when I installed Vista on the C drive. Do I just delete that file? What is the file name? Thanks for the help! Jason |
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Dual Boot Uninstall Question
Thanks for your tip. However, I can't seem to find a boot.ini file on my C
drive. I did a search and nothing turns up. Any ideas on where exactly it's supposed to be on the hard drive? Jason "Montreal MCT" wrote in message ... Hi Jason, The file is boot.ini, which in XP you can edit but in Vista is a little different. Your best bet though would be to boot from your Windows XP CD into the Windows Recovery Console, then run FIXBOOT. That should do it for you. Good luck! M -- MDG, MCT MCSA (2003), MCSA (2000), MCDST. Certified Small Business Specialist Visit my blog at http://www.mitpro.ca/Blogs/tabid/59/...2/Default.aspx "Jason Saffer" wrote: Hi there, I had installed Vista on my D drive with XP remaining on my C drive. I have now formatted the D drive. But I still get a bootup message asking me to choose either Vista or my legacy Windows. How do I get rid of that screen? I presume there's a file on C that got put there when I installed Vista on the C drive. Do I just delete that file? What is the file name? Thanks for the help! Jason |
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Dual Boot Uninstall Question
Hi Jason,
It is a hidden file on drive C. Trust me, just run the FIXBOOT command. M -- MDG, MCT MCSA (2003), MCSA (2000), MCDST. Certified Small Business Specialist Visit my blog at http://www.mitpro.ca/Blogs/tabid/59/...2/Default.aspx "Jason Saffer" wrote: Thanks for your tip. However, I can't seem to find a boot.ini file on my C drive. I did a search and nothing turns up. Any ideas on where exactly it's supposed to be on the hard drive? Jason "Montreal MCT" wrote in message ... Hi Jason, The file is boot.ini, which in XP you can edit but in Vista is a little different. Your best bet though would be to boot from your Windows XP CD into the Windows Recovery Console, then run FIXBOOT. That should do it for you. Good luck! M -- MDG, MCT MCSA (2003), MCSA (2000), MCDST. Certified Small Business Specialist Visit my blog at http://www.mitpro.ca/Blogs/tabid/59/...2/Default.aspx "Jason Saffer" wrote: Hi there, I had installed Vista on my D drive with XP remaining on my C drive. I have now formatted the D drive. But I still get a bootup message asking me to choose either Vista or my legacy Windows. How do I get rid of that screen? I presume there's a file on C that got put there when I installed Vista on the C drive. Do I just delete that file? What is the file name? Thanks for the help! Jason |
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Dual Boot Uninstall Question
Hi there,
I had installed Vista on my D drive with XP remaining on my C drive. I have now formatted the D drive. But I still get a bootup message asking me to choose either Vista or my legacy Windows. How do I get rid of that screen? I presume there's a file on C that got put there when I installed Vista on the C drive. Do I just delete that file? What is the file name? Thanks for the help! Jason Use the DVD from Vista while you are in XP. type X:\boot\bootsect /nt52 c: where X is the drive letter from the DVD drive. This will restore your original XP boot folder and Vista is gone. ko van Zeeland |