- Jan 10, 2015
- 2
- 0
- 10,510
My PC was delivered with Vista installed and I created a dual-boot setup with XP on a separate drive. Now I wish to ditch Vista (I'll reformat that drive for future scratch use) and just use the XP disc (the Vista disc is starting to throw some errors so I need to get it out of the boot sequence ASAP)
As Vista was the pre-installed OS, the MBR and boot manager are on the Vista drive. I am confused about how I can change the boot loader so I can access the XP installation and remove the Vista disc (where the current MBR and boot loader are installed). Do I need to create a new MBR on the XP drive? I have tried to boot from the XP drive directly (by disconnecting the Vista drive) but the BIOS returns a "insert bootable device in the drive" message, even though the disc management in XP shows that the XP disc is bootable.
Any suggestions welcomed, please.
As Vista was the pre-installed OS, the MBR and boot manager are on the Vista drive. I am confused about how I can change the boot loader so I can access the XP installation and remove the Vista disc (where the current MBR and boot loader are installed). Do I need to create a new MBR on the XP drive? I have tried to boot from the XP drive directly (by disconnecting the Vista drive) but the BIOS returns a "insert bootable device in the drive" message, even though the disc management in XP shows that the XP disc is bootable.
Any suggestions welcomed, please.
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram