How to remove XP setup from Boot choices? So i got a new Vista setup and installed that. Now, everytime my system boots, one of the choices in windows boot manager is "XP Setup". And it's always the default, so i always have to be there to change the choice to Windows Vista. So i can't delete it! What to do? You can delete the boot menu entry using the Manage OS Entries page of VistaBootPRO and then search for and delete any temporary setup files and folders with strange looking file names.
I recently tried an upgrade to XP on a seperate partition, but after removing XP, I still get the choice of which operating system at boot. There is no boot. Is there another way to edit the choices and remove XP so that it automatically starts in ME?
It worked partially. I had two entries on the original. It continues to do the same thing before, i. Any further suggestions? I know I can get rid of this problem with a clean re-install of my XP, with reforming the selected hard drive. It just does not appeal to me.
I tried following ur comment but it does not help…I have pasted the content of the matter that i have edited as follows:. I want to thank you for being there. Your advice on how to simply remove a boot choice was perfect. I had done it many times before but had to go through a convoluted effort and your pointing out a much simpler method deserves validation. Thank you. How to remove it or at least get into it? Did exactly what i needed. I took away the extra line of code and it booted right up.
Excellent advice! Searched on Google for my boot problem and found the answer here! Many thanks. It will give you the option to remove it. How do I eliminate this double HD rip? Leo your are like a good to me. Thank you very very very much. I literally wasted 8 hours today just scratching my brain and trying to figure out how to remove that extra like of code.
And your solution was the most simple and it took me only 30 secs to fix this issue on my laptop, thank you once again. And may god bless you. Setup files were copied successfully but it showed an error in the setup process and I had to shutdown.
I delete the second line from the boot. What to do now to delete all the setup files and the second boot choice? I installed Vista on a computer that had win XP. I thought that instaling Vista will give give the choice to format the disk, but no.
The old windows was moved to a windows. I premeturly deleted the windows. Using a boot manager i can only see the vista entry and the XP entry, but not the XP-setup entry. I removed the XP entry. Vista and 2. I installed Vista Pro and subsequently erased it.
However, the boot entry remains. BCEdit is needed, apparently, to manage the boot entry for Vista. Is there a way to remove this through XP? I just want my old auto boot to XP back and no fault windows 7 beta option. INI basically looks like the example above. I am sorry this article is not useful for me.
Because I have different problem. Bur t westing time and loking bad. You should be able to fix all this. Then boot. If you have the operating systems installed on different hard drives, then you will need to make sure that you are changing the boot.
I installed Windows XP Pro and then again in another partition installed Widows Vista in the same hard drive with four partitions. Now, Vista was hanging up sometimes and I formatted that drive, and then whenever I tried to boot I get two options as follow:. In the middle of the installation when it ask me to format partition i refused it and quit the installation.
I am using XP Professional and the first hard Disk which contains the primary partition broke now but I was already using the first one before that which already contains a partition now when I removed the Broken one I am still getting those two options. I kinda have the same problem, I tried to install windows 7 on a secondary partition but it just crashes, but now there is a boot option that asks if i wanna do the install or old windows boot.
Voila, startup problem solved. Same goes for System 7! S choices. This worked — for ending the boot selection for me… though one has to manually enter the boot id for the delete operation in CMD panel. My situation is Vista on Drive 0 c: , Windows 7 on Drive 1 d:. Thanks to this article, I no longer get the option, but rather boot directly to W7.
Fyi I purposely installed W7 as a dual-boot, just in case. How do I recover the c: partition? Thank you very much…. I tried it out and works perfectly…… i checked it by rebooting…… nothing went wrong……. Hello, Very interresting info BUT my case seams a bit different. The Vista hdd did crash totally. I have controlled the boot. Actually i do not know what to do.. I have the same boot choices problem, but I have vista.
I followed your steps, but mine does not give me an edit option. Any thoughts? Best Bluetooth Trackers. Best eReaders. Best VPN. Browse All News Articles.
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