How to remove windows boot manager?

[Juven]

I have XP Pro and Vista Home.
Now my system is very slow becos of vista, so i removed it(Vista).

When i had both the OS , i start the system with 'Windows Boot Manager' to select between XP and Vista.

After removing the Vista there is only Windows XP, but i still get the 'Windows Boot Manager' with Vista and Earlier version of Windows (i.e., XP) as the selection options when i start the system.


How to remove this windows boot manager?

I want to get straight XP.

 

[patrickv]

i found THIS link for you

hope it helps

 

[diroga]

well could you edit the boot.ini file to defaul to XP? did you remove the Vista partition?

 

[Juven]

Yes i have formatted the drive which had Vista.

Where is the boot.ini?

 

[diroga]

C:\boot.ini its a hidden system file. or in the root of other drive

 

[Juven]

I searched and there is boot.ini.backup in c:\windows\pss\


Is there any options in the RUN->MSCONFIG->BOOT.INI(tab) ?
Please guide me.

 

[diroga]

i never have edited mine really. look around, http://vlaurie.com/computers2/Articles/bootini.htm

if you want a "harder" way of doing it you can go into recovery console off the XP cd and re install the boot loader and manager. that should give you the corect settings. I have no idea how to do that also.

 

[SIMP]

You need to remove the Vista bootloader by running the command with the Vista DVD in a drive.

Go to “Start” and “Run”. Type in “e:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt52 ALL /force” (without quotes, and replacing e: with the drive letter of your Vista DVD).

Should take care of it for you!

 

[Juven]

Yes SIMP, i got it rectified.

Thanks for solving my problem.

 

[SIMP]

Yes SIMP, i got it rectified.

Thanks for solving my problem.

No problem, I had the same issue and it drove me nuts until I figured it out!! Glad you got it done.

 

[hermeslyre]

You need to remove the Vista bootloader by running the command with the Vista DVD in a drive.

Go to “Start” and “Run”. Type in “e:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt52 ALL /force” (without quotes, and replacing e: with the drive letter of your Vista DVD).

Should take care of it for you!

M$ made removing the boot loader quite easy with that command, I hear. Normally you'd have to insert the XP cd, load into the recov console and Fixmbr/fixboot, which would have solved it as well.

The one thing Vista did right.