Windows Boot Manager Question

meths · 3 Nov 2006 at 15:54

I was dual booting Vista RC1 and XP Pro for a while on a partitioned hard drive but recently deleted the Vista partition because I couldn't get working drivers for my wireless internet.

How do I stop windows boot manager from giving me the choice of both operating sytmes at startup as now there is only XP on the drive.

I when I removed Vista Beta 2 my boot screen just returned to normal automatically.

bledd · 3 Nov 2006 at 15:58

i just unplug the drive i'm not using, but i've seen people on here say vistabootpro solves vista/xp boot issues, might be worth a shot

http://www.vistabootpro.org/

J.T · 3 Nov 2006 at 16:01

Hope this helps...
http://www.istartedsomething.com/20...uninstall-vista-beta-2-for-dual-boot-with-xp/

bledd · 3 Nov 2006 at 16:03

quoting that website..

After playing around with Vista for a few days, you may want to remove it from your system, and reclaim the hard drive space. Microsoft has made this step very simple as well.

1. Boot your computer in to Windows XP.
2. Ensure you have the Vista DVD image emulated or in the DVD drive.
3. 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).
4. Restart the computer, and you will notice the boot selection menu is gone.
5. Format the partition/drive where you had Vista installed.
6. 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.
7. Optional: Restart to ensure it still works.
8. Use your partition software to merge your partitions together.

meths · 3 Nov 2006 at 16:03

Thanks guys.

J.T · 3 Nov 2006 at 16:17

Sorry I should have done that instead shouldn't I