XP/Vista Dual Boot Problem

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kevinw27

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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.
 
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.
 
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...
 
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
 
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