I just did a very silly thing.
I want my PC dual booting Vista/XP to prompt me before booting and NOT BOOT until I say so. I unchecked the "Time until boot" box. Now, 1. How can I be presented with the boot options again, and 2. How do I set it up so it never boots an OS by default?
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NeoTOM
OMG WTF REDESIGN
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Minh
WOOH! WOOH!
Open up C:\boot.ini & it should be clear. Note: it's mark as read- only so set that off first before Saving
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Matthew van Eerde
AKA Maurits
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NeoTOM
OMG WTF REDESIGN
Vista doesn't use boot.ini IIRC, and I can't access bcdedit from XP.
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Sven Groot
I'm Commander Shepard and this is my favourite store on the Citadel.
You should be able to use bcdedit from XP without problems.
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NeoTOM
OMG WTF REDESIGN
Sven Groot wrote:You should be able to use bcdedit from XP without problems.
Windows cannot find "bcdedit".
Also: just running the EXE out of my Vista install path generates a DLL error. -
ZippyV
Fired Up
I think you can edit your boot configuration with msconfig in Vista.
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NeoTOM
OMG WTF REDESIGN
ZippyV wrote:I think you can edit your boot configuration with msconfig in Vista.
But how do I GET to Vista as I've disabled the timeout for the boot prompt?
By the way, I edited the boot info through the nifty new dialog in the System Control Panel when I screwed this up. -
Sven Groot
I'm Commander Shepard and this is my favourite store on the Citadel.
You may want to try VistaBootPRO.
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ZippyV
Fired Up
Keep tapping F8 while your bios is booting.
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NeoTOM
OMG WTF REDESIGN
Pressing F8 skips directly to the XP options.
Sven Groot wrote:You may want to try VistaBootPRO.
That was useful. Now, is there any way I can keep it from booting the default at all?
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