Help, I've been stupid...

[NotAGolf]

I had Vista and XP on dual boot with my computer but I got frustrated with Vista so I wanted to go back to XP. To do this I just used Acronis to delete the Vista partition and expand the XP drive to take up the whole disk.

This worked, the only problem was that I still had the bootscreen appearing when I turned the computer on, so everytime I have to select XP. I thought this would be easy to change later on so I carried on.

Then I found out that it is not clever to just delete an OS because thngs like this happen.

Is there anyway I can get rid of the screen and load straight into XP because it really gets on my nerves.

So far I have tried running fixmbr from the XP disk with no luck. I've also tried going to Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Startup and Recovery and changing the options so the settings are:


Default operating System:
"Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT
Time to display list of operating Systems: 1 second
Time to display recovery options when needed: 1 second



And my Boot.ini looks like:

;
;Warning: Boot.ini is used on Windows XP and earlier operating systems.
;Warning: Use BCDEDIT.exe to modify Windows Vista boot options.
;
[boot loader]
timeout=1
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT


Yet it still displays for the original 30 seconds, and if left for those 30 seconds will try boot Vista as the default and will obvisly fail.

How can I fix this with doing ANOTHER fresh install?
Thanks for any help.

 

[Simian]

Did you try 'Fixboot' from the XP disk?... When I removed Linux from my system I had to do a 'fixmbr' and 'fixboot' to get the boot screen back to one OS... this then just booted to Windows without showing!!

 

[lord filbuster]

put a copy of ntdetect.com in the root of the c:\ drive, should force it to detect the installed os's again. it worked for me when i dual booted vista, then later deleted it.

 

[Subterranean]

My advice would be the same as Simian, ie

Boot from the XP disk
Once loaded, press 'r' to go into the repair console
Type 'fixboot' and select yes

 

[NotAGolf]

Thanks guys, fixboot did the trick

Just before I get carried away with setting up all my apps, is there anything else I could have messed up by just deleting the Vista install or should I be good to go?

Thanks again.

 

[Simian]

Should be good to go!... unless Vista was installed on the same partition as XP (which would be amazingly stupid!.. but I have seen it!)... They're completely separate (except from the Boot Menu which you've now fixed!!)