XP / Vista Dual Boot

[lglrgl]

A few months I decided to dual boot vista on a separate HD. After the trial period was over I was unable to access vista for an uninstall, so I decided to just reformat the drive that vista was loaded on. Now whenever I reboot I still receive the option to dual boot either vista or XP.

Does anyone know how to remove the vista option or is this stored in the MBR?

[doctorgonzo]

You need to edit the boot.ini file to remove the references to Vista. You can either edit it directly from the C:\ drive, or right-click on "My Computer", select Properties, Advanced tab, Startup and Recovery Settings button, then the Edit button.

Remove the line under [operating systems] that references Vista. You should be left with one line for XP that looks something like this (what it looks like for you depends on drive partitioning, etc.):

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

[lglrgl]

thanks doc,

that did the job