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Remove entry in dual boot menu

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abhijit_reddevil
abhijit_reddevil Original post #1
Nov 17, 2006 at 3:39 PM
Hi,

I do not know whether this has been discussed before, so I am opening a new thread. I used to have windows XP SP2 and windows vista beta 2 on two partitions of the HDD. XP was on C drive, vista was on F drive (I have a 80GB HDD with 4 partitions, C, D, E, F). Now I formatted the F drive. Previously I used to have a dual boot menu between XP and Vista on startup. But even after I formatted the F drive, I am still getting the dual boot menu.

Any suggestions as to how to remove the entry of Vista from startup so that the system would boot directly into XP without waiting for user input? I know I can edit the C:\boot.ini but I heard that if something goes wrong, I might not be able to boot. So I wanted the safest way to edit the same.

Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Vishal Gupta
Vishal Gupta #2
Nov 17, 2006 at 3:45 PM
No u can't remove the Vista entry from boot.ini

just boot using XP CD and enter into Recovery console and give following command:

fixmbr
S
sakumar79 #3
Nov 17, 2006 at 11:10 PM
No need to fixmbr...

Booting in XP, run msconfig, go to Boot.ini section. Just under the list, select "Check all boot paths" button. It should notify that the Vista option is invalid and ask if you want to remove it. Select Yes. Restart.

Arun
Vishal Gupta
Vishal Gupta #4
Nov 17, 2006 at 11:14 PM
^^
It'll not help coz the entries are in new Vista boot loader and not in boot.ini files ;)
Tushar.bar
Tushar.bar #6
Nov 18, 2006 at 7:36 AM
Vishal Gupta said:
No u can't remove the Vista entry from boot.ini

just boot using XP CD and enter into Recovery console and give following command:

fixmbr
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is that command works to remove the boot entry of linux?
Vishal Gupta
Vishal Gupta #7
Nov 18, 2006 at 10:54 PM
^^
Yes!

@digitized
Method in my first post will do the job ;)
ravi_9793
ravi_9793 #8
Nov 19, 2006 at 5:18 PM
I have ur solution...follow this
start-right click my computer-properties-advance-click the setting of"start up and recovery---a new page will open-edit -u wiii find something like this..
[boot loader]
timeout=30
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" /FASTDETECT /NOGUIBOOT
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows vista" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect


delete the line containing the vista.

restart the system...u have done
abhijit_reddevil
abhijit_reddevil #9
Nov 19, 2006 at 6:05 PM
ravi_pintu2001@yahoo.com said:
I have ur solution...follow this
start-right click my computer-properties-advance-click the setting of"start up and recovery---a new page will open-edit -u wiii find something like this..
[boot loader]
timeout=30
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" /FASTDETECT /NOGUIBOOT
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows vista" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect


delete the line containing the vista.

restart the system...u have done
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Ok thanks, I will try it out and let you know.