Boot-up Help!

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Marc Nutty

Hi,

On one of my laptops, where I have 2 HDDs, I installed Vista on one of them.
However, due to finishing testing on a laptop I format the HDD from the Disk
Management on the other (XP) HDD, yet I still get the boot-up option screen
when I power up.

Help? Any ideas lol?
 
Start>Run>msconfig>Boot>hilite the XP entry, delete it, tick the box "Make
all boot settings permanent.
 
Ok, I have a mate with kind of the same problem.... however! he has Win XP
Home on one HDD and Win XP Home on another HDD!!! so on the boot options he
has Windows XP Home edition AND Windows XP Home Edition.

One version works ok, the other doesn't work (gets a system error something
about HAL.DLL).

I suggested, getting on backing up ALL data etc... and format both HDDs and
install a fresh lol, but he would still get the options at the beginning
right?

help!

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- Nutty -
Colin Barnhorst said:
Use either VistaBootPro or EasyBCD to remove the entry from the boot
options screen. Once the BOS is down to one entry it will no longer
appear.
http://neosmart.net/forums/index.php?gettopic=81
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The way it should work is he will see Home and Pro on one option screen
before installing Vista and after installing Vista he should see Old Version
of Windows and Windows (Vista). Choosing Old Version of Windows should
bring up a second screen offering Home and Pro.

Marc Nutty said:
Ok, I have a mate with kind of the same problem.... however! he has Win XP
Home on one HDD and Win XP Home on another HDD!!! so on the boot options
he has Windows XP Home edition AND Windows XP Home Edition.

One version works ok, the other doesn't work (gets a system error
something about HAL.DLL).

I suggested, getting on backing up ALL data etc... and format both HDDs
and install a fresh lol, but he would still get the options at the
beginning right?

help!

--
- Nutty -
Colin Barnhorst said:
Use either VistaBootPro or EasyBCD to remove the entry from the boot
options screen. Once the BOS is down to one entry it will no longer
appear.
http://neosmart.net/forums/index.php?gettopic=81
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
no no no lol. (sorry)

ok story,
He already has installed Vista, and then formatted it from the XP HDD, but
then had the two boot options still (old version of windows and Windows
Vista) however, he decided to change the boot.ini file :-S and now he gets
an error saying HAL.DLL is corrupt or missing, when trying to access the win
XP HDD, so now he cannot get onto either!!! SO, he decided to install XP
again over the Vista HDD (so all his docs were on the XP HDD still), and now
he has 2 options... Windows xp Home and Windows xp Home (one works ok, one
doesn't)!!

So basically the question is, he can work on the HDD with XP on that works
ok, however how does he get rid of the other option on the boot-up, (knowing
altering the boot.ini is a bit of a dilemma cos BOTH options are the same!
yet one version works one doesn't)

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- Nutty -
Colin Barnhorst said:
The way it should work is he will see Home and Pro on one option screen
before installing Vista and after installing Vista he should see Old
Version of Windows and Windows (Vista). Choosing Old Version of Windows
should bring up a second screen offering Home and Pro.
Click to expand...
 
With Home (good entry) and Home (dead entry) he can use System
Properties>Advanced>Startup and Recovery Settings>Edit to delete the dead
entry. Obviously he must know which is the dead entry. The easiest way to
know is if he is already defaulting to the good entry since that will be the
top choice. He should proceed here with extreme caution.

Marc Nutty said:
no no no lol. (sorry)

ok story,
He already has installed Vista, and then formatted it from the XP HDD, but
then had the two boot options still (old version of windows and Windows
Vista) however, he decided to change the boot.ini file :-S and now he gets
an error saying HAL.DLL is corrupt or missing, when trying to access the
win XP HDD, so now he cannot get onto either!!! SO, he decided to install
XP again over the Vista HDD (so all his docs were on the XP HDD still),
and now he has 2 options... Windows xp Home and Windows xp Home (one works
ok, one doesn't)!!

So basically the question is, he can work on the HDD with XP on that works
ok, however how does he get rid of the other option on the boot-up,
(knowing altering the boot.ini is a bit of a dilemma cos BOTH options are
the same! yet one version works one doesn't)
Click to expand...
 
yes, that is what I said, hence back-up all data etc... lol which he's doing
and hey, should be ok lol.

Heck computers! who'd have 'em! ? lol

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- Nutty -
Colin Barnhorst said:
With Home (good entry) and Home (dead entry) he can use System
Properties>Advanced>Startup and Recovery Settings>Edit to delete the dead
entry. Obviously he must know which is the dead entry. The easiest way
to know is if he is already defaulting to the good entry since that will
be the top choice. He should proceed here with extreme caution.
Click to expand...
 
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