Removing XP From Vista Dual Boot

zom247 · 5 Dec 2008 at 16:17

At the moment I have got XP and Vista dual booting. I now want to get rid of XP and just use Vista. Both the OS's are on separate drives. If I just format the drive with XP on will the boot loader stay the same (ie asking which version it should load) or will the system recognise that there is only 1 OS now?

Liquidfox · 5 Dec 2008 at 16:23

Not sure, but you can always use MSconfig to remove *** XP string if it doesn't do it itself.

Nanobot · 5 Dec 2008 at 16:59

Use EasyBCD to remove XP boot entries.

zom247 · 5 Dec 2008 at 17:23

Nanobot said:
Use EasyBCD to remove XP boot entries.

Done that but now it wont let me format the drive that XP is on. Can't even do it in safe mode. The XP drive is showing as the system drive which is why I think I can't delete it. Is there a way round this or should I just delete both drives and start again with a fresh Vista install?

Nanobot · 5 Dec 2008 at 17:30

The Vista bootmgr files are probably living on your XP drive.
Boot from Vista DVD and repair bootloader. If that doesnt sort it, disconnect your XP HDD and try again.

zom247 · 5 Dec 2008 at 17:48

Nanobot said:
The Vista bootmgr files are probably living on your XP drive.
Boot from Vista DVD and repair bootloader. If that doesnt sort it, disconnect your XP HDD and try again.

Cheers, booting from DVD and repairing sorted it all out.