Hi,
I installed the beta version of vista available before sometime on MSDN, and made my computer dual boot (Windows XP was already there on c:\; vista was intalled on G:\)
Now, I want to remove the beta version of vista from the harddisk and freeup that space. My boot up menu shows me Vista and Earlier OS (which might live somewhere on C:\boot.ini - as per the legacy tradition.. but if I see the boot.ini, it says,
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;Warning: Boot.ini is used on Windows XP and earlier operating systems.
;Warning: Use BCDEDIT.exe to modify Windows Vista boot options.
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I tried looking at BCDEDIT.exe but could not find anything by which I can remove the Vista Entry safely (and after that, i will format the g:\ where i installed the vista, i think that will clean it and thats what i want.. i can not take risk of putting my
XP system at risk !!)
Any help appreciated !!
Regards,
Jigar
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:OWarning: I didn't test it yet. Make a backup first of your XP partition.
Enjoy!
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figuerres
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jigarmehtamscit wrote:Hi,
I installed the beta version of vista available before sometime on MSDN, and made my computer dual boot (Windows XP was already there on c:\; vista was intalled on G:\)
Now, I want to remove the beta version of vista from the harddisk and freeup that space. My boot up menu shows me Vista and Earlier OS (which might live somewhere on C:\boot.ini - as per the legacy tradition.. but if I see the boot.ini, it says,
;
;Warning: Boot.ini is used on Windows XP and earlier operating systems.
;Warning: Use BCDEDIT.exe to modify Windows Vista boot options.
;
I tried looking at BCDEDIT.exe but could not find anything by which I can remove the Vista Entry safely (and after that, i will format the g:\ where i installed the vista, i think that will clean it and thats what i want.. i can not take risk of putting my XP system at risk !!)
Any help appreciated !!
Regards,
Jigar
http://www.vistabootpro.org/
used it on two pc's w/o any problems...
install, pick options, done. -
Hey,
Thanks for the solution.
VistaBootPro is a very good piece of software. It shows BCDEDIT is so complex that some third party develops very good GUI tool to manipulate with it.
Anyways, it works for me.
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figuerres
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jigarmehtamscit wrote:Hey,
Thanks for the solution.
VistaBootPro is a very good piece of software. It shows BCDEDIT is so complex that some third party develops very good GUI tool to manipulate with it.
Anyways, it works for me.
yeah a tool like that should have been built to ship with vista, and like the pro networks tool it should install on xp for the same reasons....
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