Three operating systems showing?

bloodline76 · 1 Nov 2008 at 13:32

I have been running dual boot with xp and vista but I upgraded the hard drive for vista but now I have three OS showing.

One XP and two Vista, how do I get rid of one? Checked msconfig but couldnt see a way of doing it there.

Thanks

modo77 · 1 Nov 2008 at 13:37

http://www.vistabootpro.org/ great program to make it easy.

dirtydog · 1 Nov 2008 at 13:38

This free program makes it easy to edit the Vista boot manager: http://www.vistabootpro.org/

(too slow

)

manjuice · 1 Nov 2008 at 13:51

dirtydog said:
This free program makes it easy to edit the Vista boot manager: http://www.vistabootpro.org/

(too slow )

I have 2 OS. XP & Vista.
Can I just format my XP drive and use the above tool on Vista to remove the XP entry?

modo77 · 1 Nov 2008 at 14:00

yes, although if the xp hard disk has the vista boot loader on it then you will need to run the repair option off the vista cd

dirtydog · 1 Nov 2008 at 14:02

Not if the Vista boot loader is on the XP partition, no.

I dual boot with XP and Vista too. XP is on the first partition and so is the 'Boot' folder. If you format that partition, your computer won't boot.

bloodline76 · 1 Nov 2008 at 14:23

Thanks guys, that was very simple with that program. Just have to reboot to see if it worked.

dirtydog · 1 Nov 2008 at 14:48

...and he was never heard from again

If there were two instances of Vista which pointed to different partitions, I hope you deleted the right one