Disable dualboot

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No, the boot files for XP will remain - good if you want
to single-boot XP again. Just the entry in Vista's BCD that
points to XP's ntldr will be gone.

*TimDaniels*
 
Timothy Daniels said:
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*
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Of course, you're completely right. The problem is that I cannot see the
computer on which the problem occurred. It showed tha XP was installed on D
instead of C.
 
Timothy Daniels said:
No, the boot files for XP will remain - good if you want
to single-boot XP again. Just the entry in Vista's BCD that
points to XP's ntldr will be gone.

*TimDaniels*
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To everyone who helped me: many thanks, by using VistaBootPro the user could
correct it. Now it works the way it should. Silly from me to not realize
that boot.ini was on another drive. But the BootPro helped. Thanks a lot
everyone.
 
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