VISTA & XP Dual Boot issue

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Guest

Hello Everyone,

This is really quite stupid of me. I obtained a beta version of Vista and
implimented a dual boot with my XP Pro Service Pack 2. I seemed to have let
my Vista beta version run out and now have the Vista boot screen whenever my
computer starts but Vista is no longer there. How can I revert my boot screen
back to my original XP boot screen containing only Windows XP and yes 98SE? I
should mention I have already wiped the partition that contained Vista and
cannot locate BCEDIT.EXE on my system. DOH! When the VISTA boot screen
appears it gives me this error cannot find \Windows\sys32\winload.exe, gone I
assume from wiping the VISTA partition. I select legacy systems and find the
boot screen that I want in boot.ini. Any suggestions or solutions? Can I edit
the boot.ini to save myself? Kind of leary about that one as I am not sure if
the partition number has changed or not since VISTA is now gone.
 
Z

Zack Whittaker

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Naseru

Andre, his concerns are abundantly clear -- maybe more experience will help.

"treidie," you have 2 choices (as I've run into a similar dilemma of
unable-to-boot-XP)...

SOLUTION #1
"USING VISTA INSTALLER DISC/RECOVERY CONSOLE"

a) In BIOS, verify that CD-ROM is the first device booted
b) Using the Vista installer CD/DVD, insert it; reboot
c) When it prompts to load from CD, press any key
d) When Vista's installer is loaded (you can "install"), select the
"recovery" text-link at the bottom-left part of the screen
e) After it loads the drivers, you can ignore any prompts to get to the menu
options
f) Select the COMMAND PROMPT choice (not sure the labeling), and there you
can run BCDEdit.exe commands
g) For help, run "BCDEdit.exe /?" ... or simply type "bcdedit.exe /enum" to
see what's there.
h) Chances are you'll want to run the following command:
"bcdedit.exe /set Default = {ntldr}" (sans quotes)
i) If you wish to modify the entries, review step "g" above for other
detailed options (including reverting to the standard NTLoader boot loader
instead of the Vista BCD)

SOLUTION #2
"USING AN XP-FORMATTED BOOT DISK"

a) In BIOS, verify that Floppy is the first device booted
b) Using an XP-formatted boot disk, make sure "bcdedit.exe" is there (Zack's
tool recommendation includes a copy in its installed folder)
c) Reboot, and when you can load from the floppy, run commands from Solution
#1 (step "g").

P.S.: I just wrote this; they are not taken from anywhere else on the
Internet. If they exist, oh well.

- naseru
 
Z

Zack Whittaker

Ha!! You wish - but actually no - I started using it when Patrick posted
about it...
http://www.msblog.org/?p=631

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