Boot loader still shows 2 OS's

LHC · Mar 29, 2006, 01:42 PM

Recently I had XP Pro installed on one partition, and the Vista beta on another. Since I hardly used the Vista beta, I decided to get rid of it.

I got rid of it, and used Partition Magic to secure erase that partition. That, of course, became unallocated space, so I resized my C: partition (XP) to the whole drive.

I went into the boot.ini file, and saw that there is just one OS, and that's XP. However, when I start up, it is the same as it was when I had Vista.

It has the "Microsoft Windows" and "Pre-Longhorn Operating System" or whatever that says. Although there is only one OS in the boot.ini file. Any ideas?

PS. Reformatting is the last thing I want to do, considering I did it like not even a month ago

PangingJr · Mar 29, 2006, 02:00 PM

Windows Vista uses a completely different boot loader, the OS selector are not listed in the Boot.ini.

read John Barnett post in here.

Hope this help.

PangingJr · Apr 1, 2006, 05:39 PM

how's it going?

LHC · Apr 1, 2006, 05:49 PM

Ehh.. well I don't have a floppy drive to be honest, and I don't really want to waste a CD on it, so I'll just wait until the next time I reformat, which, knowing me, won't be that far off. It isn't that annoying anyway.

Thanks for your help though

Mar 29, 2006, 01:42 PM	#1
LHC Stingy and Stubborn Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: New Jersey Posts: 1,325 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Boot loader still shows 2 OS's Recently I had XP Pro installed on one partition, and the Vista beta on another. Since I hardly used the Vista beta, I decided to get rid of it. I got rid of it, and used Partition Magic to secure erase that partition. That, of course, became unallocated space, so I resized my C: partition (XP) to the whole drive. I went into the boot.ini file, and saw that there is just one OS, and that's XP. However, when I start up, it is the same as it was when I had Vista. It has the "Microsoft Windows" and "Pre-Longhorn Operating System" or whatever that says. Although there is only one OS in the boot.ini file. Any ideas? PS. Reformatting is the last thing I want to do, considering I did it like not even a month ago __________________

Mar 29, 2006, 02:00 PM	#2
PangingJr Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 5,989 Rep Power: 69	Windows Vista uses a completely different boot loader, the OS selector are not listed in the Boot.ini. read John Barnett post in here. Hope this help. Last edited by PangingJr; Mar 29, 2006 at 02:07 PM.

Apr 1, 2006, 05:49 PM	Thread Starter #4
LHC Stingy and Stubborn Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: New Jersey Posts: 1,325 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Ehh.. well I don't have a floppy drive to be honest, and I don't really want to waste a CD on it, so I'll just wait until the next time I reformat, which, knowing me, won't be that far off. It isn't that annoying anyway. Thanks for your help though __________________

Apr 1, 2006, 05:39 PM	#3
PangingJr Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 5,989 Rep Power: 69	how's it going?