Windows Boot Mnager Problem

[Terra-Hawk]

Bought a HP PC just over a year ago now 1 month before VISTA was released and
was offered a free upgrade disc to vista when i bought it. I had to send
away for it, well it is only now iv'e braved installing it.

The problem is since the upgrade with Home Premium edition, everytime i
start up my pc the windows boot manager pops up at the start asking to boot
normally or choose a previous edition of windows. How do i stop it from
coming up? im worried someone will accidentally press the wrong thing at the
start.

 

[Jeff Strickland]

You need to edit the BOOT.INI file.

Copy c:\boot.ini to boot.in_ (this will give you a recovery point -- you can
copy boot.in_ to boot.ini and restore the original operation).

Then go into the boot.ini file and edit so that Vista is the default OS. You
can do this from within the System dialog too, but I don't think tht method
gives a back up.

If there is no boot.ini file, Vista should still boot and make a new one.
You could simply rename boot.ini to boot.in_ and restart. I think the first
restart will give an error, but subsequent restarts should be clean.

 

[Terra-Hawk]

Sorry, I do not fully understand, where do i find these boot.ini files, where
are they located? can you please be abit more specific as i'm not very good
with computers.

Thankyou.

 

[Terra-Hawk]

I had to follow an instruction CD especially from HP so it would install
properly, i chose the Upgrade to vista option rather than start from scratch
because there wasnt an option to remove the old windows. The disc said to
upgrade so i was woried to even attpemt to remoe the old windows, plus there
wasnt an option anyway. There is nothing i want to save on my Hard Drive as
a power surge yesterday afternoon wiped it so i decided this was the time to
try vista. How do i remove the xp option entirely?

what would you suggest i do? a complete reformat?

thanks.

 

[John Barnes]

Download and install either EasyBCD or VistaBootPro (both are free to
download - Google) Once installed you can easily follow the instructions to
clean up the Boot process to remove the unwanted entry

 

[WTC]

Bought a HP PC just over a year ago now 1 month before VISTA was
released and was offered a free upgrade disc to vista when i bought
it. I had to send away for it, well it is only now iv'e braved
installing it.

The problem is since the upgrade with Home Premium edition, everytime
i start up my pc the windows boot manager pops up at the start asking
to boot normally or choose a previous edition of windows. How do i
stop it from coming up? im worried someone will accidentally press
the wrong thing at the start.

Hi Terra-Hawk,

At an elevated Command Prompt type:

bcdedit /delete {ntldr}

 

[Jeff Strickland]

BOOT.INI is in the root directory. C:\BOOT.INI

Sorry, I do not fully understand, where do i find these boot.ini files,
where
are they located? can you please be abit more specific as i'm not very
good
with computers.

Thankyou.

 

[Jeff Strickland]

Okay. Sorry for butting in ...

 

[Terra-Hawk]

Thanks for all your suggestions, i did a complete re-install this time, i
didnt follow the disc upgrade 100% this time, i put the disc in first and
restarted my pc, doing it this way gave me the option to re-format the hard
drive and install vista on its own with no XP hich was great, it soon solved
the problem and now runs alot better too.

I downloaded a BIOS patch also and everything works very well. Thanks for
helping and taking time to read through my posts. cheers