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Windows Vista VISTA Boot Manager - Can't remove it

Discussion in 'Legacy Windows' started by fatcat123, 2007/12/31.

  1. 2007/12/31
    fatcat123

    fatcat123 Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hi,

    Before migrating to VISTA. I installed XP on a spare disk (now i have 2 disk on my PC) then upgraded it to VISTA. Just to make sure my PC would run without any problems.
    I have now removed the upgraded VISTA disk, thinking this would remove the Boot manager menu. I was wrong.
    When restart my PC the boot menu still appears.
    Could someone give me advice on how to stop the boot menu?
    Thanks in advance.
     
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    Whiskeyman Lifetime Subscription

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    Boot your computer in to Windows XP.

    Ensure you have the Vista DVD image emulated or in the DVD 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).

    Restart the computer, and you will notice the boot selection menu is gone.

    Format the partition/drive where you had Vista installed.

    Remove two files (Boot.BAK & Bootsect.BAK) on your XP drive’s root folder (C:), these were backup files of your previous bootloader, now no longer useful.

    Optional: Restart to ensure it still works.
     

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