Help me clear my boot screen?

wez130

wez130

wez130

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Right, previously i've been running XP pro and a demo of vista ultimate, i deleted vista ultimate as i have bought a proper copy of vista home premium, but the option at boot up always remained.

I've reformatted my main HD (i have 4 drives) and just installed vista home premium, but now i'm getting the option of XP (which was on this drive that i've formatted) and also the old vista. So as you can see, it's getting kinda messy. I intend on reinstalling XP too as a backupup, so it's gonna give me 2 instances of each to choose from, though there will only be one instance of each on my PC, so how can i clean my boot screen up?

Thanks
 
Edit the boot.ini file.

1. Right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.
2. On the Advanced tab, click Settings under Startup and Recovery.
3. Under System Startup, click Edit.

Might look something like:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect
Click to expand...

For more stuff on adding/deleting operating systems from the boot screen:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289022

Jon
 
where's edit?

prtscrn.jpg
 
Ah.

Well it's right there on XP... however on Vista they seem to have got rid of it.

Boot.ini is no longer used in Vista, it uses something called "Boot Configuration Data Editor" (bcdedit.exe).

I don't have Vista so I can't help much more, but this link might be worth looking at, as well as a Google for "bcdedit.exe" etc.

I'm sure someone else with Vista will be along soon to help you out more ;)

Jon
 
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