XP/Vista Dual Boot Problem

kevinw27 · 07-06-2006, 11:21 PM

I had XP Sp2 installed on my pc and installed Vista Beta 2 on another partition of same harddrive. Deleted and formatted the partition with Vista on it because i had no apps or anything to run on it. Problem is it still acts like a dual boot system trying to load vista by default. the boot.ini file only has one OS listed and that's XP. I'm wanting to do a repair install of XP but my computer won't boot from cd. it just goes to the boot menu. I don't want to do a clean install of xp if i don't have to. Any help would be great.

mrjack · 07-07-2006, 12:38 AM

Do you have the boot settings correctly in the BIOS, cause you might have to make it check the CD/DVD drive as the primary place to search for a boot record.

Livzz · 07-07-2006, 02:06 PM

I noticed that when i formatted a Vista partition aswell, but i was going to reinstall it so i didn't worry about it...
but when i noticed it i thought about what would happen if i didn't re-install vista, like what you're doing... I dont know, but maybe Vista has some uninstall feature you need to use? if it does, you'll probably need to re-install it again and then uninstall it properly...
but i'm just guessing...

kevinw27 · 07-07-2006, 08:54 PM

yeah there's a file similar to the boot.ini in vista called bcdedit.exe that i should've edited before i deleted it. Guess I'll know next time. thanks for the help

07-06-2006, 11:21 PM	#1 (permalink)
kevinw27 New Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 22	XP/Vista Dual Boot Problem I had XP Sp2 installed on my pc and installed Vista Beta 2 on another partition of same harddrive. Deleted and formatted the partition with Vista on it because i had no apps or anything to run on it. Problem is it still acts like a dual boot system trying to load vista by default. the boot.ini file only has one OS listed and that's XP. I'm wanting to do a repair install of XP but my computer won't boot from cd. it just goes to the boot menu. I don't want to do a clean install of xp if i don't have to. Any help would be great.

07-07-2006, 12:38 AM	#2 (permalink)
mrjack VIP Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Finland Age: 17 Posts: 2,363	Do you have the boot settings correctly in the BIOS, cause you might have to make it check the CD/DVD drive as the primary place to search for a boot record. __________________ Main rig: Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 @ 3GHz \| MSI P7N Zilent 2x2048Mb OCZ Titanium 800MHz DDR2 Samsung Spinpoint T166 320Gb SATAII Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250Gb SATAII Western Digital Caviar 500Gb SATAII MSI NX8800GT OC 512Mb @ 660MHz/950MHz Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio \| Antec Truepower Trio 550W

07-07-2006, 02:06 PM	#3 (permalink)
Livzz Gold Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Australia Age: 21 Posts: 301	I noticed that when i formatted a Vista partition aswell, but i was going to reinstall it so i didn't worry about it... but when i noticed it i thought about what would happen if i didn't re-install vista, like what you're doing... I dont know, but maybe Vista has some uninstall feature you need to use? if it does, you'll probably need to re-install it again and then uninstall it properly... but i'm just guessing... __________________ AMD X2 6000+ Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe (4x1Gb) Kingston DDR2 800 MSI 8800GTS 512Mb 2x WD 500Gb 16Mb 7200rpm SATA-II Corsair HX620 PSU Logitech MX5000 desktop Samsung SyncMaster 206BW

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07-07-2006, 08:54 PM	#4 (permalink)
kevinw27 New Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 22	yeah there's a file similar to the boot.ini in vista called bcdedit.exe that i should've edited before i deleted it. Guess I'll know next time. thanks for the help