How change from dual boot to single boot Vista?

[Kris]

XP is on 1st primary partition [active] and is old.

Vista is on 2nd Primary partition and is new.

Dual boot info, I believe, is all on the XP partition.

Soon I will want to go to Vista only.

Do I just delete the XP partition (after imaging it, of course!) and set
Vista partition to active? (Paragon Partition Manager)

Will it then automatically boot into Vista (which has no boot.ini)?

Or do I have to do something else?

tia!

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Kris

Go to the following website. This utility is free and easy to use. It makes
what you need to do automatic.

VistaBoot Pro
http://www.vistabootpro.org/index.php

 

[Kris]

Kris

Go to the following website. This utility is free and easy to use. It makes
what you need to do automatic.

VistaBoot Pro
http://www.vistabootpro.org/index.php

Thanks. It was not at all obvious what to do with this. I backed it up
(BCD registry backup), and poked and prodded a few other settings but
nothing seemed to change the Vista partition. I told it to install system
bootloader in the system partition and then found something in the /boot
folder that had been modified. I have no idea how to tell whether boot in
mbr is loading Vista first, or still going through the stuff on XP, other
than by deleting the XP parrtition

 

[Kris]

Thanks. It was not at all obvious what to do with this. I backed it up
(BCD registry backup), and poked and prodded a few other settings but
nothing seemed to change the Vista partition. I told it to install system
bootloader in the system partition and then found something in the /boot
folder that had been modified. I have no idea how to tell whether boot in
mbr is loading Vista first, or still going through the stuff on XP, other
than by deleting the XP parrtition

nah, it's just changing stuff on the XP partition, nothing on the Vista
partition.

 

[Kris]

nah, it's just changing stuff on the XP partition, nothing on the Vista
partition.

I am unable to move the boot manager - that's still on the XP partition.
It aoppears that the only way to fix that it to do a full Vista install.
VISTABOOTPRO only affects the boot LOADER, not the MANAGER.

Windows Boot Manager --------------------

identifier {bootmgr}

device partition=D:

description Windows Boot Manager

locale en-US

inherit {globalsettings}default {current}displayorder {current}toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}

timeout 5

Windows Boot Loader
-------------------identifier {current}device partition=Cath \Windows\system32\winload.exe

description Microsoft Windows Vista
locale en-US

inherit {bootloadersettings}

bootdebug No

osdevice partition=C:systemroot \Windowsresumeobject {63588fcd-f636-11dc-bd8d-eb9902356c34}

nx OptIn

pae ForceDisablevga No

quietboot No
sos No

debug No


http://www.vistax64.com/vista-general/126937-move-bootmgr-drive-c-drive-d.html
said "Make D: active with disk manager, then shut down and remove C:. Boot
the
system with the Vista DVD and run a startup repair."
So I booted to Paragon, hid XP, set Vista to active, booted to VistaCD, did
repair:
first time it sait there were problems do I want it to fis it -0 yes -
reboot.
Second time I got into repair and did the top choice (no more "FIXBOOT").
details said it fixed the boot mgr.
Reboot - NTLDR is missing.
Repair really gives me no other usable choices, and there's no such thing
as a recovery install, especially since there is no such thing as a
slipstreamed CD for Vista, by design.

I rebooted to Paragon CD, unhid XP, unactivated Vista, Activated XP, reboot
fine into Vista.

So I need a correct way to move boot MANAGER, or be told I have to
re-install Vista.

 

[VitasLoWang]

I am unable to move the boot manager - that's still on the XP partition.
It aoppears that the only way to fix that it to do a full Vista install.
VISTABOOTPRO only affects the boot LOADER, not the MANAGER.> Windows Boot Manager

--------------------


device                  partition=D:


inherit                 {globalsettings}

default                 {current}

displayorder            {current}

toolsdisplayorder       {memdiag}

timeout                 5



Windows Boot Loader
-------------------

identifier              {current}

device                  partition=C:

path                    \Windows\system32\winload.exe


locale                  en-US

inherit                 {bootloadersettings}

bootdebug               No

osdevice                partition=C:

systemroot              \Windows

resumeobject            {63588fcd-f636-11dc-bd8d-eb9902356c34}

nx                      OptIn

pae                     ForceDisable

vga                     No


sos                     No

debug                   No

http://www.vistax64.com/vista-general/126937-move-bootmgr-drive-c-dri...
said "Make D: active with disk manager, then shut down and remove C:. Boot
the
system with the Vista DVD and run a startup repair."
So I booted to Paragon, hid XP, set Vista to active, booted to VistaCD, did
repair:
first time it sait there were problems do I want it to fis it -0 yes -
reboot.
Second time I got into repair and did the top choice (no more "FIXBOOT").
details said it fixed the boot mgr.
Reboot - NTLDR is missing.
Repair really gives me no other usable choices, and there's no such thing
as a recovery install, especially since there is no such thing as a
slipstreamed CD for Vista, by design.

I rebooted to Paragon CD, unhid XP, unactivated Vista, Activated XP, reboot
fine into Vista.

So I need a correct way to move boot MANAGER, or be told I have to
re-install Vista.
--
Kris
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