remove windows boot manager

I took a quick look through the previous post but didn't see anything that helped.
I loaded Vista on a separate drive and it set up the windows boot manager. I played with Vista for a while just to see what the noise was all about. Liked what I saw but decided to wait until it's released. I formatted the drive that had Vista installed. No problems, but I really don't need the boot manger anymore. What's the best (easiest) way to make it go away.
gls858

I don't know a best and easiest way, but I am going make a suggestion:
Open Control Panel > System > Advanced (tab) > under Startup and Recovery click > Settings > under System startup click > Edit
Click File > Save as, save it to a remote location such as a Floppy for example, even better, burn it to a disk, you are gonna or might need it later.
Boot into Windows XP, insert your XP CD-ROM, launch setup install XP on the partition on which Vista was installed. If you are unable to install XP because you have a later version of XP installed compared to whats on the disk, then you need to boot off the disk into setup.
XP will start into the text based portion of setup, select the partition on which Vista was installed and install XP. The possibility that it might find an existing installation of XP is likely, but it is also likely that both are incompatible because they are two different versions (ie. XP RTM vs. XP SP2), meaning, the one you are installing fresh from the disk, might have no Service Pack and the one on hard disk does.
Do not attempt to fix this installation, go ahead do a fresh installation on the partition Vista was installed.
Its possible that this procedure might add the existing install of XP to the fresh installs boot manager or it might not. If its does not, this is what you are gonna do. Remember that file I told you save earlier? This is where it comes in. Copy it to the desktop from the remote location floppy, rename it BACKUP.
Open Control Panel > System > Advanced (tab) > under Startup and Recovery click > Settings > under System startup click > Edit
Add this entry to it: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /FASTDETECT /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN
If the old XP install is not on C, change partition(1) to partition(2)
It should look something like this:
[boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /FASTDETECT /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional x64 Edition" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT /USENEWLOADER -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"gls858" wrote in message

I took a quick look through the previous post but didn't see anything that helped.
I loaded Vista on a separate drive and it set up the windows boot manager. I played with Vista for a while just to see what the noise was all about. Liked what I saw but decided to wait until it's released. I formatted the drive that had Vista installed. No problems, but I really don't need the boot manger anymore. What's the best (easiest) way to make it go away.
gls858

until it's released. I formatted the drive that had Vista installed. No problems, but I really don't need the boot manger anymore. What's the best (easiest) way to make it go away.

What were your original Window$? XP? Boot PC with WinXP CD, recovery console, run fixmbr
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Andre Da Costa [Extended64] wrote:

I don't know a best and easiest way, but I am going make a suggestion:
Open Control Panel > System > Advanced (tab) > under Startup and Recovery click > Settings > under System startup click > Edit
Click File > Save as, save it to a remote location such as a Floppy for example, even better, burn it to a disk, you are gonna or might need it later.
Boot into Windows XP, insert your XP CD-ROM, launch setup install XP on the partition on which Vista was installed. If you are unable to install XP because you have a later version of XP installed compared to whats on the disk, then you need to boot off the disk into setup.
XP will start into the text based portion of setup, select the partition on which Vista was installed and install XP. The possibility that it might find an existing installation of XP is likely, but it is also likely that both are incompatible because they are two different versions (ie. XP RTM vs. XP SP2), meaning, the one you are installing fresh from the disk, might have no Service Pack and the one on hard disk does.
Do not attempt to fix this installation, go ahead do a fresh installation on the partition Vista was installed.
Its possible that this procedure might add the existing install of XP to the fresh installs boot manager or it might not. If its does not, this is what you are gonna do. Remember that file I told you save earlier? This is where it comes in. Copy it to the desktop from the remote location floppy, rename it BACKUP.
Open Control Panel > System > Advanced (tab) > under Startup and Recovery click > Settings > under System startup click > Edit
Add this entry to it: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /FASTDETECT /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN
If the old XP install is not on C, change partition(1) to partition(2)
It should look something like this:
[boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /FASTDETECT /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional x64 Edition" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT /USENEWLOADER

Sorry for the lack of detail. I have windows XP on my C drive and it boots just fine. I just have to select it from the windows boot manager screen. I would like to get rid of the boot manager and boot doriectly to XP. Below is my current boot.ini which appears to be exactly what you recommended except for a couple of comment lines.
; ;Warning: Boot.ini is used on Windows XP and earlier operating systems. ;Warning: Use BCDEDIT.exe to modify Windows Vista boot options. ; [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT
gls858

Man-wai Chang wrote:

until it's released. I formatted the drive that had Vista installed. No problems, but I really don't need the boot manger anymore. What's the best (easiest) way to make it go away.
What were your original Window$? XP? Boot PC with WinXP CD, recovery console, run fixmbr

Thanks for the reply. I was hoping to avoid fixmbr. Seems like a drastic measure just to get rid of a couple extra keystrokes. If it's the only way, I may not bother trying to get rid of the extra screen.
gls858

Boot.ini is practically useless nowadays for editing the boot management. Stick with bcdedit.exe.
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--: Original message follows :-- "gls858" wrote in message

Andre Da Costa [Extended64] wrote: I don't know a best and easiest way, but I am going make a suggestion:
Open Control Panel > System > Advanced (tab) > under Startup and Recovery click > Settings > under System startup click > Edit
Click File > Save as, save it to a remote location such as a Floppy for example, even better, burn it to a disk, you are gonna or might need it later.
Boot into Windows XP, insert your XP CD-ROM, launch setup install XP on the partition on which Vista was installed. If you are unable to install XP because you have a later version of XP installed compared to whats on the disk, then you need to boot off the disk into setup.
XP will start into the text based portion of setup, select the partition on which Vista was installed and install XP. The possibility that it might find an existing installation of XP is likely, but it is also likely that both are incompatible because they are two different versions (ie. XP RTM vs. XP SP2), meaning, the one you are installing fresh from the disk, might have no Service Pack and the one on hard disk does.
Do not attempt to fix this installation, go ahead do a fresh installation on the partition Vista was installed.
Its possible that this procedure might add the existing install of XP to the fresh installs boot manager or it might not. If its does not, this is what you are gonna do. Remember that file I told you save earlier? This is where it comes in. Copy it to the desktop from the remote location floppy, rename it BACKUP.
Open Control Panel > System > Advanced (tab) > under Startup and Recovery click > Settings > under System startup click > Edit
Add this entry to it: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /FASTDETECT /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN
If the old XP install is not on C, change partition(1) to partition(2)
It should look something like this:
[boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /FASTDETECT /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional x64 Edition" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT /USENEWLOADER
Sorry for the lack of detail. I have windows XP on my C drive and it boots just fine. I just have to select it from the windows boot manager screen. I would like to get rid of the boot manager and boot doriectly to XP. Below is my current boot.ini which appears to be exactly what you recommended except for a couple of comment lines.
; ;Warning: Boot.ini is used on Windows XP and earlier operating systems. ;Warning: Use BCDEDIT.exe to modify Windows Vista boot options. ; [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT
gls858

But if the user won't be running Vista on that machine and is not in an IT Environment, BCDEdit is just as useless. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Zack Whittaker" wrote in message

Boot.ini is practically useless nowadays for editing the boot management. Stick with bcdedit.exe.
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "gls858" wrote in message Andre Da Costa [Extended64] wrote: I don't know a best and easiest way, but I am going make a suggestion:
Open Control Panel > System > Advanced (tab) > under Startup and Recovery click > Settings > under System startup click > Edit
Click File > Save as, save it to a remote location such as a Floppy for example, even better, burn it to a disk, you are gonna or might need it later.
Boot into Windows XP, insert your XP CD-ROM, launch setup install XP on the partition on which Vista was installed. If you are unable to install XP because you have a later version of XP installed compared to whats on the disk, then you need to boot off the disk into setup.
XP will start into the text based portion of setup, select the partition on which Vista was installed and install XP. The possibility that it might find an existing installation of XP is likely, but it is also likely that both are incompatible because they are two different versions (ie. XP RTM vs. XP SP2), meaning, the one you are installing fresh from the disk, might have no Service Pack and the one on hard disk does.
Do not attempt to fix this installation, go ahead do a fresh installation on the partition Vista was installed.
Its possible that this procedure might add the existing install of XP to the fresh installs boot manager or it might not. If its does not, this is what you are gonna do. Remember that file I told you save earlier? This is where it comes in. Copy it to the desktop from the remote location floppy, rename it BACKUP.
Open Control Panel > System > Advanced (tab) > under Startup and Recovery click > Settings > under System startup click > Edit
Add this entry to it: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /FASTDETECT /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN
If the old XP install is not on C, change partition(1) to partition(2)
It should look something like this:
[boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /FASTDETECT /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional x64 Edition" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT /USENEWLOADER
Sorry for the lack of detail. I have windows XP on my C drive and it boots just fine. I just have to select it from the windows boot manager screen. I would like to get rid of the boot manager and boot doriectly to XP. Below is my current boot.ini which appears to be exactly what you recommended except for a couple of comment lines.
; ;Warning: Boot.ini is used on Windows XP and earlier operating systems. ;Warning: Use BCDEDIT.exe to modify Windows Vista boot options. ; [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT
gls858