Solve : Boot Record?

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Answer» I got done building me a DESKTOP not to long ago and I put XP Pro on it with SP2. I dual-booted and put Vista on it as well. But I decided to un-install vista, but yet when the computer starts up. I still get a choice to boot to Vista or XP Pro (if I select vista, error message occurs). I WANT VISTA GONE!! =] How do I go into my Master Boot record and get vista off of there?Look at your boot.ini Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Startup and Recovery -> Settings -> EditThnx, I had some1 today tell me to do something with my xp disc. Anywayz. Thnx againok, went there and I see nothing about Vista on there. Oh duh, of course not. It's left over from Vista. I'll get back with you on this. ok...if u find something out. My e-mail is under my pic if you just want to email Thnx again!The bootini will not always say what flavor of WINDOWS it is. The partition info may be a clue though. Post it here and we'll take a look. Your email addy in your sig will leave you wide open for the spambots though.Quote from: zanter8 on March 05, 2008, 07:40:21 AM I dual-booted and put Vista on it as well. But I decided to un-install vista, but yet when the computer starts up. I still get a choice to boot to Vista or XP Pro (if I select vista, error message occurs). Quote from: zanter8 on March 05, 2008, 11:55:33 AM ok, went there and I see nothing about Vista on there. We have a contradiction here. Your boot.ini file contains what you see during startup, the screen where you can choose an OS. So, if you see "Vista" on that screen during startup, then it IS in your boot.ini file.soybean, Vista doesn't use the boot.ini, it uses the BCD (Boot Configuration Data). I know this but not how to work with it. (At least not yet.) Unless the OP did something tricky, XP would have been installed first and then Vista added for the dual boot. I'm not aware of an actual "uninstall" for Vista (but someone should create it :-)), so I suspect it has left the BCD behind. BCD will run first. If XP is picked boot.ini will then run. Eg0Death, thanks for pointing that out and for linking to the reference.Isn't this simply a matter of running FIXMBR from the XP recovery console then? This should overwrite the MBR with a standard XP boot loader and get rid of anything Vista have left behind (in the MBR).Deerpark, By Jove, I think you're on to someting! (Or is it 'on something' . . . ?) I don't ACTUALLY know though. I need to go break an XP/Vista dual boot to be certain. Where did my 2nd post dissappear to ? ? I have seen allot of people having trouble getting Vista TOTAL un- installed from computer depending how it was installed.

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I got done building me a DESKTOP not to long ago and I put XP Pro on it with SP2. I dual-booted and put Vista on it as well. But I decided to un-install vista, but yet when the computer starts up. I still get a choice to boot to Vista or XP Pro (if I select vista, error message occurs).

I WANT VISTA GONE!! =]

How do I go into my Master Boot record and get vista off of there?Look at your boot.ini

Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Startup and Recovery -> Settings -> EditThnx, I had some1 today tell me to do something with my xp disc.

Anywayz. Thnx againok, went there and I see nothing about Vista on there.

Oh duh, of course not. It's left over from Vista. I'll get back with you on this. ok...if u find something out. My e-mail is under my pic if you just want to email

Thnx again!The bootini will not always say what flavor of WINDOWS it is.
The partition info may be a clue though.
Post it here and we'll take a look.
Your email addy in your sig will leave you wide open for the spambots though.Quote from: zanter8 on March 05, 2008, 07:40:21 AM

I dual-booted and put Vista on it as well. But I decided to un-install vista, but yet when the computer starts up. I still get a choice to boot to Vista or XP Pro (if I select vista, error message occurs).

Quote from: zanter8 on March 05, 2008, 11:55:33 AM

ok, went there and I see nothing about Vista on there.

We have a contradiction here. Your boot.ini file contains what you see during startup, the screen where you can choose an OS. So, if you see "Vista" on that screen during startup, then it IS in your boot.ini file.soybean,
Vista doesn't use the boot.ini, it uses the BCD (Boot Configuration Data). I know this but not how to work with it. (At least not yet.) Unless the OP did something tricky, XP would have been installed first and then Vista added for the dual boot. I'm not aware of an actual "uninstall" for Vista (but someone should create it :-)), so I suspect it has left the BCD behind. BCD will run first. If XP is picked boot.ini will then run. Eg0Death, thanks for pointing that out and for linking to the reference.Isn't this simply a matter of running FIXMBR from the XP recovery console then? This should overwrite the MBR with a standard XP boot loader and get rid of anything Vista have left behind (in the MBR).Deerpark,
By Jove, I think you're on to someting! (Or is it 'on something' . . . ?) I don't ACTUALLY know though. I need to go break an XP/Vista dual boot to be certain. Where did my 2nd post dissappear to ? ?

I have seen allot of people having trouble getting Vista TOTAL un- installed from computer depending how it was installed.

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