[warnockm]

I'm running Windows XP on the first partition of a hard drive and i installed Vista on the second partition. It appears that Vista rewrote my MBR or the boot menu as it is different that the Windows XP boot menu. The menu lets me choose between Xp and Vista which is great. However, i decided to remove Vista and it's partition but i can't edit the boot menu. In XP i used to edit the boot.ini file, but the boot.ini file on the xp partition does not contain the options on the boot menu. How can i uninstall the vista boot menu or change it to remove the entry for vista?

Thanks!

[Fat Jonny]

If you have an XP disk the easiest way to remove Vista is to simply use the "fixmbr" and "fixboot" commands under the recovery options. This will remove your dual boot menu altogether. Since the XP boot sector was replaced by a Vista one with an XP entry in it, you won't be able to edit it in XP. Here's the method: http://www.syschat.c...-boot-1852.html

There's another method here:

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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.

Source: http://www.istarteds...l-boot-with-xp/

[warnockm]

Ah, perfect! I had run fixmbr, but not fixboot. thanks.

Fat Jonny, on Apr 13 2007, 05:44 PM, said:

If you have an XP disk the easiest way to remove Vista is to simply use the "fixmbr" and "fixboot" commands under the recovery options. This will remove your dual boot menu altogether. Since the XP boot sector was replaced by a Vista one with an XP entry in it, you won't be able to edit it in XP. Here's the method: http://www.syschat.c...-boot-1852.html

There's another method here:

Quote

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.

Source: http://www.istarteds...l-boot-with-xp/

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