Stopping my pc from automatically booting vista (even though i removed vista!)

snow patrol · 16 Mar 2007 at 23:04

i recently installed vista on my pc, but for various reasons i decided i didn't want it and so i formatted my vista partition. However, now whenever i boot up my pc, it seems to want to boot vista. The only way i can force it to boot xp is to press the down arrow key and choose 'older version of windows'. Seeing as i don't even have vista at all, this is a little inconvenient to say the least. How to i get rid of this boot option? Thanks

bringans · 16 Mar 2007 at 23:35

posted this the other day. hope it helps

Boot your computer in to Windows XP.
Ensure you have the Vista DVD image emulated or in the DVD drive.
Go to “Start” and “Run”. Type in “e:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt52 ALL /force” (without quotes, and replacing e: with the drive letter of your Vista DVD).
Restart the computer, and you will notice the boot selection menu is gone.
Format the partition/drive where you had Vista installed.
Remove two files (Boot.BAK & Bootsect.BAK) on your XP drive’s root folder (C, these were backup files of your previous bootloader, now no longer useful.
Optional: Restart to ensure it still works.
Use your partition software to merge your partitions together.

Things change I've changed · 17 Mar 2007 at 03:02

or

just autoboot your XP disk, go into recovery console and type 'fixboot',

done

snow patrol · 17 Mar 2007 at 09:45

thanks guys. I think i'll try option 2 first