windows boot up screen

adbp1 · 18 Dec 2008 at 23:08

hi, ive got dual boot up screen on my netbook which i dont want, i intially installed vista onto seperate partition to see how it would run but now ive decided i wanna keep xp, so i deleted the partition with vista.
but now each time i boot it gives me choice of vista or earleir version of windows.. if i dont keep an eye on it it boots to vista which isnt there so then gives me another screen.

how can i get rid of the boot screen so it jsut boots back to xp without thinking of *** to do?

thanks ali

gillywibble · 18 Dec 2008 at 23:10

Edit the boot.ini and remove the Vista line.

LeJosh · 18 Dec 2008 at 23:12

Control panel > system > advanced > start up and recovery > choose your default operatin system, once you've logged into xp.

You can also change the time it takes to choose.

adbp1 · 18 Dec 2008 at 23:23

ok forgive me!!

which or what do i change?
this is what it says in edit start up:

;Warning: Boot.ini is used on Windows XP and earlier operating systems.
;Warning: Use BCDEDIT.exe to modify Windows Vista boot options.
;
[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT

Wayne~ · 18 Dec 2008 at 23:29

Use LeJosh's suggestion, its easier

Can tell it to never display the Vista option and boot straight to XP

adbp1 · 18 Dec 2008 at 23:45

its still doing it

default is "xp home"
time to display i set to 0 seconds
time to display recovery i set to 0 seconds

but yet when i restart it still shows vista or xp and counts down from 30 seconds

LeJosh · 18 Dec 2008 at 23:50

You have completely formatted the Vista partition? Shouldn't be recognising there is another OS there if the files aren't there?Plus it still shouldn't be doing :confused:

have you used the run command to open up that BCDEDIT.exe file?

adbp1 · 19 Dec 2008 at 00:06

LeJosh said:
You have completely formatted the Vista partition? Shouldn't be recognising there is another OS there if the files aren't there?Plus it still shouldn't be doing

have you used the run command to open up that BCDEDIT.exe file?

tried BCDEDIT.exe and it comes up with "windows cant find"

the partiton is now fully formated and joined back with the rest of the hdd
but yet i restart and still the menu there

why is life never simple !!!!

LeJosh · 19 Dec 2008 at 00:14

Set the time to display to 5 seconds, 0 might be unavailable. I'm kind of lost aswell, just have to try trial and error now.

Or Uncheck the box that says the seconds (unless you did that before)

zzzJonny · 19 Dec 2008 at 00:39

I'm pretty sure I used to have this but I managed to fix it some time ago, now my boot.ini looks like this:

Code:

[boot loader]
timeout=1
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

Here might be some useful info for you too:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289022

adbp1 · 19 Dec 2008 at 00:54

ok got a little problem now
cant actually boot into anything now, played with boot ini (saved first) then copied ini from another pc running windows home but now neither vista boots of course cos its not there and now neither does xp, just tells me some stuff about check hard disk setup

Mattus · 19 Dec 2008 at 08:01

You can't change the boot options from XP because it's still using the Vista bootloader. You need to rewrite the boot record to tell it to boot straight into XP.

Boot off your XP CD and choose to run the recovery console. When it's loaded up, type fixmbr and press enter, then type fixboot and press enter, then restart.