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XP Pro and Red Hat 8.0 dual boot
John Barnes jbar...@email.net microsoft public windows vista installation_setup You need to make sure the partition that you are trying to install the boot manager on is marked active and a primary partition. So, first in boot priority (or only one attached) 1 active primary partition, and retry startup repair.

windows me and windows 98
I think win 2000 installed the boot manager before exiting the install. You must reinstall win2000. Once you install win2000, it basically takes over your system. I don't think there is even a way to uninstall it after installing over previous operating system. Unless you want to throw way your older os.

Dual boot - remove one OS.
Stephen Petrowski bsa2...@adelphia.net microsoft public windows vista installation_setup go to the disk manager and change the drive letters in vista then format the empty .... That should put boot manager on your active partition. Some have had to run it several times, so run at least 4 times before posting back.

Boot manager location
Or, boot a Startup Diskette, & REMOVE the diskette, before step 2d. (2) At DOS... (a) Enter "EDIT C:\Windows\System.ini" (b) In the [Boot] section, in file manager open progra-1 open intern-1 open setup and in the file manager window is the setup.exe .???? thanx bh x No windows explorer's file name is

Windows bootmanager
Use partition Magic (latest version) and a good boot manager (I use System Commander). Carefully read the manual for Partition Magic. Finally, when I am comfortable with my Windows XP setup, I want to completely remove Windows 98, and just end up with my current Windows XP system on a single C: partition on one

In need for help!!!
It is quite easy to use (but not as easy as PM), and has a brilliant boot manager, . Understand, that when you delete a partition you make the data in it unavailable, If you do get PM, you can theoretically convert back to FAT and then remove Windows 98. I don't advise it though, it can cause problems.

Remove Windows paritition and install 2nd Linux OS
Black Screen on Boot http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=155053 'Blue Screen' Error When You Use Partition Magic 3.x to Dual Boot Windows 2000 Reasons Why Windows NT Does Not Boot From a Shadow Mirror Drive http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=167045 Removing the Linux LILO Boot Manager

remove windows 98
Lilo asks me which OS to boot in which I am ok with because it works. My question is centered on if I want to windows and fdisk that partition and install Debian 30r2 there. will this cause problems? ie will lilo know what I did ? Does Debian have a different type of Boot manager ? which one will be Primary ? and

529 erros after changing domain admin pswd
ORG: I need to know how to remove the boot manager from my system that freeBSD setup. I have two HDs and now Win98 only will see my 1st HD b/c of the boot manager I Doing so will help us read your post :-) If you have Windows 98, drop to a DOS prompt and type fdisk /mbr to restore the default boot manager.

remove old entries in Windows Boot Manager
Remove Windows from my C: partition, but leave DOS there. Install Warp blue spine on the D: partition, but put Win-OS/2 on the C: partition. Occasionally use the Boot Manager to boot up IBM PC-DOS 7.0 from C:, and then run Win-OS/2 under it. Here is why I might want to do this. Under Warp blue I had two separate

Dual boot - remove one OS.
Mac (Croatia) MacCroa...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup Stephen! Thank your for your attempt but I can not change any drive .... That should put boot manager on your active partition. Some have had to run it several times, so run at least 4 times before posting back.

Windows XP and dual booting
"marty" wrote: Because of some install issues I had to reinstall Windows Vista three times before I was successfull. There are now multiple entries in Windows Boot Manager when I boot my computer. How can I remove the old entries in Windows Boot Manager? I also have Windows XP installed on the second hard drive.

Windows XP and dual booting
One last thing, I hope I can remove it, with the non format c: way :) Steffan -- You can. Boot with a Windows 98 start up disk, and at the prompt type SYS C: and press the Enter key. You can then format the Windows 2000 partition, then in the C: drive delete the file pagefile.sys, boot.ini, and any files beginning

How do u remove "Windows 2000 Setup" option from dual boot???
Christopher Rued c.r...@xsb.com comp unix bsd freebsd misc Yes, you can dual boot Linux (either by LiLo, or probably by a boot manager for Windows). I can't remove Windows at the moment as all my work is on there and really do not currently have the time to totally immerse myself in a new OS, so if I could run

linux & windows 98
If you setup Windows 98, you WILL NOT (I added the bold myself) be able to use Boot Manager. For more information, see Setup.Txt on setup disk 1 or the Windows 98 compact This is in stark contrast with regards to the abundance of references that give detailed, step by step instructions on how to remove OS/2.

to warp or not to warp
Richard G. Harper rghar...@email.com microsoft public windowsme setup You can edit the boot.ini file to remove references to the WinMe partition, WinMe but given this description I'm rather hesitant to suggest any of them since I don't know even which boot manager (Win2K or WinXP) is in charge on your machine.

Trouble with new display and Device Manager
But I'm worried that sth will go wrong at this moment and I'll lose access to Windows Boot from your XP CD, choose "repair console" and do fixmbr at the prompt. That will get rid of Grub. That's correct! And to delete the partitions where Xandros is installed you will be safe if you use disk management from within

My XP Debaccle
Skip the format step and do whatever you want with the partitions that linux is currently on, just as you would if it you had three copies of Windows installed and didn't want two of them. You'll also want to remove your boot manager if it is installed onto your HD's MBR. The procedure is different for every boot

Help! Delete the NT boot manager?
I would like to know , what is the recomended way to install both OS's so that I can dual boot with XP's boot manager. And if not so, how do I setup the boot loader? 4. Once I get over with this, and had my days of testing, how would you remove Windows XP and its boot loader associations?

remove old entries in Windows Boot Manager
Since you only have frontend to work on in Windows, the only way i know is to reformat linux partition to FAT However, if i were you (which i am not), I would remove Windows 98 and settle for good ol' Linux. The only way I found to be able to boot something with winblows 98 on the PC is to have the winblows 98