removing windows multi boot.

[Stuart]

for a while now my dads had his pc configured for multibooting by which i
mean when he starts it up he gets a boot manager come up asking him whether
he wants to boot into windows xp or windows 7, i have now just bought a new
pc and he is going to have my old one so we need to remove the multiboot
system, we ran windows 7 setup from the dvd and formatted the windows 7 drive
yet windows 7 still appears in the boot list, how do i clear windows 7's
entry from the boot manager so it just loads into xp without prompting the
user to select an operating system?

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Stuart

 

[Pegasus [MVP]]

"Stuart" <stuartbennett-online@ntlworld.com> said this in news item
news:13E75EC7-2070-4870-820C-71A46E2E9ED0@microsoft.com...
> for a while now my dads had his pc configured for multibooting by which i
> mean when he starts it up he gets a boot manager come up asking him
> whether
> he wants to boot into windows xp or windows 7, i have now just bought a
> new
> pc and he is going to have my old one so we need to remove the multiboot
> system, we ran windows 7 setup from the dvd and formatted the windows 7
> drive
> yet windows 7 still appears in the boot list, how do i clear windows 7's
> entry from the boot manager so it just loads into xp without prompting the
> user to select an operating system?
>
> --
> Stuart

Which boot manager do you see? The one from WinXP? If so then you can run
msconfig.exe and edit boot.ini from there.

 

[Andy]

On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:22:01 -0800, Stuart
<stuartbennett-online@ntlworld.com> wrote:

>
>for a while now my dads had his pc configured for multibooting by which i
>mean when he starts it up he gets a boot manager come up asking him whether
>he wants to boot into windows xp or windows 7, i have now just bought a new
>pc and he is going to have my old one so we need to remove the multiboot
>system, we ran windows 7 setup from the dvd and formatted the windows 7 drive
>yet windows 7 still appears in the boot list, how do i clear windows 7's
>entry from the boot manager so it just loads into xp without prompting the
>user to select an operating system?

Run the command bootsect /nt52 sys
to replace the Windows 7 boot sector with Windows XP's.