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cabmanuk

cabmanuk

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Hi everyone

Hope someone can help:D I had windows 7 on my second HD and have changed it back to vista 64,on my first HD is xp.My problem is that on the post screen it gives me three options to boot from XP then Vista then windows 7 even thou i do not have that any more:confused:Any ideas how i can remove windows 7 from the post screen?

Thanks cabmanuk
 
You need to edit your boot.ini file try this. It's based on XP but should be similar if not the same in Vista.

Right click on My Computer, and select Properties. Now click on the Advanced tab. In a section labeled Startup and Recovery click on the button labeled Settings.

Click on Edit to edit the startup options file (aka boot.ini) manually. That should open Notepad with something similar to the following: (you may want to make a backup before altering anything)

[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptOut

The above has only 1 option on boot: Windows XP. I guess yours has XP, Vista and Win7 .You can simply delete the Win7 line and save the file replacing the original.

That should have solved the problem on next boot.
 
ReaVerUK said:
You need to edit your boot.ini file try this. It's based on XP but should be similar if not the same in Vista.

Right click on My Computer, and select Properties. Now click on the Advanced tab. In a section labeled Startup and Recovery click on the button labeled Settings.

Click on Edit to edit the startup options file (aka boot.ini) manually. That should open Notepad with something similar to the following: (you may want to make a backup before altering anything)

[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptOut

The above has only 1 option on boot: Windows XP. I guess yours has XP, Vista and Win7 .You can simply delete the Win7 line and save the file replacing the original.

That should have solved the problem on next boot.
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That's the xp bootloader. If you have installed vista or 7 (or both) it will have the vista bootloader, which operates differently.

Download EasyBCD (from here: http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1) and use that to remove Windows 7 from the boot list. You can also use it to customize times that it takes to automaticly boot and which os it defaults to. You can even use this to change the order that the OSes are listed in. Give it a try.
 
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