MBR messed after installation of XP over Vista

I had dual booted Vista and XP, but then I came to the conclusion to just stick with XP. Although Vista was usable, the OS didn't come to my liking. However, I do admit it has come a long way.

Anyway, I had installed Windows XP from booting from CD, formatted and installed XP over the Vista partition (C:\ if it matters). Then, I formatted the previous XP partition and merged the new XP and the blank partition together.

Afterwards, I got the XP disc and booted from it, entering the recovery console. Oddly enough, it showed
1) F:\Windows (This would be the CD Drive)
2) C:\Windows

So I chose C anyway, since that's where XP now was. Then I typed in fixboot then fixmbr, then exited. However, there's still an option of Windows XP and Windows XP upon boot.

I figured I probably should've deleted the BCD entry of the second XP before writing over the Vista partition, but that was only after I had this problem.

Any suggestions to this? Help would be appreciated; thanks in advance.

-Slowhill

 

Well, what you want to to, is right click on my computer, the click properties, then go to the advanced Tab, the slick the system startup and recovery.

Now, (im not in xp atm so im doing this from memory) there should somewhere be an option to edit the boot.ini, which should open in notepad, and then you just need to delete the wrong entry, unless both of them boot you into windows, in which case you can delete either.

If that seems to advanced for you/ you don't know which to delete, then download a program like vista boot pro which can do it for you.

 

this guide by microsoft will show you how to remove entries from boot.ini
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289022

 

Ahaha, I never realized I could do that,
but it seemed to work
Thank you for those speedy replies

-Slowhill