Can I clean up my boot options?

matt100 · 29 Sep 2010 at 09:37

I had an install of windows 7 on my work laptop, basically it had xp pro on it then I partitioned the drive and put windows 7 on there.

I needed the space so I went into the disk management bit on the XP install, deleted the partition that I'd put windows 7 on and just set that up as another drive letter and it all works fine.

The issue is when I boot it keeps giving me the option to boot to windows 7 or "older version of windows" which isn't a massive deal but its a bit annoying.

Can I clean that up easily? There's only 1 HDD in there by the way.

BloodyL · 29 Sep 2010 at 09:43

easyBCD

matt100 · 29 Sep 2010 at 10:13

lifesaver cheers

PatZ1989 · 30 Sep 2010 at 12:13

could have just modified the boot.ini file and removed the line regarding XP, but im sure that software worked just fine

matt100 · 30 Sep 2010 at 12:38

I did that but xp could only see the xp boot in boot.ini for some reason whereas easybcd saw it all.

Pho · 30 Sep 2010 at 12:48

For future reference you can also do basic modifying with msconfig (start > type it in the start menu) which comes with Windows already.

The reason it wasn't in boot.ini is that Windows 7 doesn't use boot.ini for itsself

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anything I don't mind · 30 Sep 2010 at 14:28

you can just right click on my computer goto properties then the advanced tab and click on the settings button in the startup and recovery section, there you can disable boot options.

PatZ1989 · 30 Sep 2010 at 15:01

windows 7 doesnt use boot.ini, interestinggg didnt know that

matt100 · 30 Sep 2010 at 15:02

the issue was that I no longer had the win 7 install but in the bootloader it was installed as the default and xp was just referenced as "an earlier version of windows" but when I went into all these options such as boot.ini, startup options, msconfig etc etc it only ever referenced xp, there was no mention of win 7 until I used easybcd.

I could take off the 30 second timeout or similar but then it would presumably have defaulted to booting the 1st option OS which was win 7 that was no longer there!