Disable dualboot

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Vlieger

I got a system with Vista and XP. Now I erased XP. But how can I get rid of
dualboot at the start of the system?
 
Download and install VistaBootPro. You can then edit the operating system
entries to remove the Windows XP entry. To remove the XP entry, Run
VistaBootPro and then click on the Manage OS Entries tab. Select the Windows
XP operating system and the press the 'X' button to remove the entry, then
lick the Apply button.

The next time you boot you should boot directly to the Vista desktop

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In Vista,
Click start and type
MSconfig
and hit enter.
system Configuration will start up.
On the Boot tab
Make sure Vista is set for default
then select the XP startup line
and click Delete.
Then Click OK to close.
It will then be gone!
Hope this helps ya
 
In Vista,
Click start and type
MSconfig
and hit enter.
system Configuration will start up.
On the Boot tab
Make sure Vista is set for default
then select the XP startup line
and click Delete.
Then Click OK to close.
It will then be gone!
Hope this helps ya
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You are unreadable. So I think I'll stop trying.
 
Spaceman said:
What is unreadable?
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I can read it fine, but answer this. When I do the above I don't see XP
listed, but it is in Control Panel, System, Advanced System Settings,
Startup and Recovery, Settings. It is also there at boot time. btw, I
created the XP entry using bcdedit.

Earle
 
Well,
Iam not sure how bcdedit works completely
but..
I would try this.
If you have no more WinXP to run and
you only have Vista running now..
If you can see such.
Look for Boot.ini
and delete it.
If you only have Vista running now the file is not needed.
Hope that helps ya.
 
Spaceman said:
Well,
Iam not sure how bcdedit works completely
but..
I would try this.
If you have no more WinXP to run and
you only have Vista running now..
If you can see such.
Look for Boot.ini
and delete it.
If you only have Vista running now the file is not needed.
Hope that helps ya.
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Thanks for your answer, but in Vista there is no boot.ini.
 
Paul Montgomery said:
Did you follow John Barnett's advice?
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Well, I try to help a person with no knowledge of the English language
whatsoever. So first I let him try the other options, and now I hope he will
able to work with VistaBootPro. I keep you informed.
 
Oh, sorry,
I though you were the original poster.
So what happens to the boot.ini if a person has
added vista to setup that had boot.ini?

Does Vista automatically delete it ?
 
Spaceman said:
So what happens to the boot.ini if a person has
added vista to setup that had boot.ini?

Does Vista automatically delete it ?
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No, the Vista installer sets up the BCD so that
if XP is selected from the boot menu, the Vista
boot loader hands off control to XP's boot manager
(called "ntldr") which then consults XP's boot.ini file
and then runs XP's ntdetect.com, just as when XP
was the only OS in the system. In other words, the
Vista installer recognizes the previous Windows
and tells Vista to let those Windows OSes "do it
their way" when one of those old Windows OSes
is selected at boot time.

*TimDaniels*
 
So the file should still be there then.?
Does BCD look for the boot.ini or the ntldr
when it sets itself up or some other file?

What I was thinking is maybe Vista still thinks there is
another OS by seeing that file or whatever file
it checks for other OS's installed.
 
Spaceman said:
So the file should still be there then.?
Does BCD look for the boot.ini or the ntldr
when it sets itself up or some other file?

What I was thinking is maybe Vista still thinks there is
another OS by seeing that file or whatever file
it checks for other OS's installed.
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The boot.ini is no longer available. But still this dualboot option when
starting the computer.
 
Spaceman said:
So the file should still be there then.?
Does BCD look for the boot.ini or the ntldr
when it sets itself up or some other file?

What I was thinking is maybe Vista still thinks there is
another OS by seeing that file or whatever file
it checks for other OS's installed.
Click to expand...

The boot files for XP, i.e. boot.ini, ntldr, and ntdetect.com,
are left in place in the XP System partition (the partition that
contains the boot files - which is frequently to same partition
that contains the operating system, the "Boot" partition). The
Vista boot manager is told in the BCD to just pass control to
those same files in the same place as they used to be. They
are not moved, not re-created, nor in any way diddled with.
Vista just leaves the past to work as it always did. The
indication in Vista of the presence of old Windows installations
is in the BCD, and the command line utility "bcdedit" can be
used to remove those references if that is what you want.

*TimDaniels*
 
Vlieger said:
The boot.ini is no longer available. But still this dualboot option when
starting the computer.
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That's because there is still an entry for {ntldr} in the Vista Boot Manager
database. Good advice posted in this thread is to use Vista Boot Pro or
Bcdedit to delete the entry.

Run a Command Prompt as Administrator.

Bcdedit /delete {ntldr} /f

It will be gone.

Cheers,

Earle
 
Ok,
Yes
That is what I had said to use in another post I made to
this thread.
Just making sure that would be the correct way.
And IF XP was actually removed like was stated then the
boot.ini should be gone.
Got it I think.
:)
 
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