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3Ball   02-03-2009 at 04:01:21 PM

Hello all,

I have been looking for a boot manager program that will allow me to change my boot screen options. I currently run a dual boot of Vista and Ubuntu. I recently had a tri-boot going with win7beta and the other to OS's as well, but after win7 crashed on me I just went ahead and changed the partition into a dedicated data storage area, but my boot screen still shows all 3 options to boot from (win7, win vista, and ubuntu).

Does anyone know of a way that I can remove the win7 option from the menu. I have done this before a year or two ago with my laptop, but seem to have forgotten the process in which I did it. Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thanks to all in advance.

Best,

3Ball

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emmaelle   02-06-2009 at 02:31:01 PM
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you can use googling and also use a link to troubleshooting http//www.iyogi.ca/

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3Ball   02-06-2009 at 08:58:20 PM
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Quite profound emmaelle! Glad to see you assume that I haven't used google. Thats a search engine correct? If you are unable or unwilling to help then please don't respond.

Best,

3Ball

------------------------------ ASUS P5Q Pro P45 Motherboard
Intel C2Q Q9550 @ 3.40ghz w/ (8.5x400mhz, 1.2125v, Zalman 9500 & 24+ Hours Prime95 Stable)
6gb G. Skill DDR2 6400 @ 800mhz w/ (5-5-5-15: 2T, 2.04v)
EVGA GTX275 @ 660mhz/1550mhz/2400mhz
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pat mcgroin   02-07-2009 at 04:55:27 PM
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3ball give this a try to see what boot loader is being used.

Open a command prompt and type
bcdedit <enter>

If you get results it will tell you if a windows boot loder is in charge.
If not then it must be the Linux loader.

bcdedit /? will give assistance with the switches available but its hard to understand.
If it turns out that windows is in charge post back and I will try to help furthur as I have some examples of its use that we can go over.

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3Ball   02-07-2009 at 06:36:58 PM
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Thanks for the help Pat. Unfortunately when I type the command into command prompt i get an error saying: "'bcedit' is not recognized as a internal or external command, operable program or batch file."

Best,

3Ball

------------------------------ ASUS P5Q Pro P45 Motherboard
Intel C2Q Q9550 @ 3.40ghz w/ (8.5x400mhz, 1.2125v, Zalman 9500 & 24+ Hours Prime95 Stable)
6gb G. Skill DDR2 6400 @ 800mhz w/ (5-5-5-15: 2T, 2.04v)
EVGA GTX275 @ 660mhz/1550mhz/2400mhz
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pat mcgroin   02-07-2009 at 08:28:26 PM
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double check your spelling.
You have bcedit and it should be bcdedit

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3Ball   02-07-2009 at 09:04:11 PM
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Ah, yea sry...read that wrong. I did get a list of results.

 

It comes up into 4 different sections in order of:

 

Windows Boot Manager - Description: Windows Boot Manger

 

Windows Boot Loader - Description: Windows 7

 

Windows Boot Loader - Description: Windows Vista

 

Real-mode Boot Sector - Description: Ubuntu

 

Best,

 

3Ball


Message edited by 3Ball on 02-07-2009 at 09:05:37 PM
------------------------------ ASUS P5Q Pro P45 Motherboard
Intel C2Q Q9550 @ 3.40ghz w/ (8.5x400mhz, 1.2125v, Zalman 9500 & 24+ Hours Prime95 Stable)
6gb G. Skill DDR2 6400 @ 800mhz w/ (5-5-5-15: 2T, 2.04v)
EVGA GTX275 @ 660mhz/1550mhz/2400mhz
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pat mcgroin   02-08-2009 at 06:34:25 PM
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This could work and is worth trying first.
Start|run|msconfig|boot
see if its there and if so delete it.
I havent tried W7 yet but I think it will be the same as Vista.

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3Ball   02-08-2009 at 09:11:37 PM
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That worked great. Very simple and will surely be good knowledge to know for the future. Thanks for all of your help Pat.

Best,

3Ball

------------------------------ ASUS P5Q Pro P45 Motherboard
Intel C2Q Q9550 @ 3.40ghz w/ (8.5x400mhz, 1.2125v, Zalman 9500 & 24+ Hours Prime95 Stable)
6gb G. Skill DDR2 6400 @ 800mhz w/ (5-5-5-15: 2T, 2.04v)
EVGA GTX275 @ 660mhz/1550mhz/2400mhz
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