How to remove the DUAL boot left by VISTA

Anyone who has tried VISTA as a dual boot offering on C: Drive and wants to remove Vista by deleteing it off the Partition they created on C: Drive simply format that from the XP desktop (presumeing you are using XP home or Pro) partition and VISTA will be gone.

Now you will notice that when you reboot the DUAL BOOT window will still pop up and offer Microsoft as the primary OS (VISTA) of course it dosent say Vista... or An Older Version Of Windows.

This will get old fast as this dual boot menue will default to Microsoft looking for Vista and of course it will crash to a default screen saying that OS is of course unavailable because you deleted it.

So in short to remove the DUAL BOOT menue you will need to do 2 simple things anyone can manage.

First go to Windows Explorer and TOOLS/FOLDER OPTIONS and set Show Hidden files and folders. Also scroll down to Hide Protected Operating System Files (Recommended) and uncheck that box.

Now, find c:boot.ini

right click it, and remove its read-only property if it has one.

Now, open it in notepad (should just have to double click it.)

First two lines read like this:

[boot loader]
timeout=30

Change it to

[boot loader]
timeout=0


Now Open up your C: Drive folder and you will see a nice little folder called "Boot" this Boot folder belongs to VISTA and not XP you will send it to the recycle Bin but dont delete it just let it ride the out basket then reboot your XP install should come right back up to your password or desktop and never mention the dual boot menue again

When this fix is succesfull delete the Boot folder from your recycle bin.

Problem solved.

It might have got lost in this longer post and us OLDER people around here need things right in front of them so grant us OLDER Tom's users some slack.



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