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    vista boot log

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by slyfirth, Apr 27, 2007.

  1. slyfirth

    slyfirth Notebook Consultant

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    hi we have had a acer with vista preinstalled and put xp home on the other partitions
    partition D.
    but did not wont to have xp home on so reformated drive d but when you boot up it still asked you which op you wont. how do we stop it asking
    cheers
     
    slyfirth, Apr 27, 2007
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    mujtaba ZzzZzz Super Moderator

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    If it's the same in Vista.Find the file "Boot.ini" and delete the XP Home entry.And make sure that the default option is the vista.
     
    mujtaba, Apr 27, 2007
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    Orlbuckeye Notebook Evangelist

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    I thought in order to dual boot you had to install XP first. Thats what people were saying on the Vista forum.
     
    Orlbuckeye, Apr 27, 2007
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    so did i but on a pals laptop he had vista on first and we put xp pro on and with vistabootpro installed it work fine?
     
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    got it down to the boot manager no how to do it with xp but not vista can anyone help
    cheers
     
    slyfirth, Apr 27, 2007
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    The familiar boot.ini file of previous Windows versions has been replaced in Windows Vista with a new boot file called BCDedit. It is unfortunate that, unlike, boot.ini the BCDedit file is not the easiest of files to actually edit. Some would say that the boot.ini file was a nightmare, well BCDedit is absolutely horrendous.

    For more information on the Vista Boot manager visit:

    http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/library/85cd5efe-c349-427c-b035-c2719d4af778.mspx

    While for the experienced editing the BCDedit file will not cause many major headaches, if you are reluctant to enter the Command Line arena there is a more user friendly substitutecalled "Vista Boot Pro" ( http://www.vistabootpro.org/ )
    but don't know if it will be able to help you since you have already removed XP
     
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    spud, Apr 27, 2007
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