Recently installed windows 7...cant find it in boot.ini to remove from boot

I recently installed windows 7 and now i want to remove it from the boot selection, however, i cant find it in the boot.ini I am finished evaluating it and no longer wish to be prompted to boot it. any ideas?

Within the boot.ini, it mentions the use of BCDEDIT.exe for windows vista machines, however, XP does not use this. I do infact still have win7 installed, if it matters.

 

This should work:
1. Boot your computer in to Windows XP.
2. Ensure you have the Windows 7 DVD image emulated or in the DVD drive.
3. Go to “Start” and “Run”. Type in “e:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt52 ALL /force” (without quotes, and replacing e: with the drive letter of your Windows 7 DVD).
4. Restart the computer, and you will notice the boot selection menu is gone.
5. Format the partition/drive where you had Windows 7 installed.
6. Remove two files (Boot.BAK & Bootsect.BAK) on your XP drive’s root folder (C , these were backup files of your previous bootloader, now no longer useful.
7. Optional: Restart to ensure it still works.
8. Use your partition software to merge your partitions together.

This may or may not work.

 

This may start to get tricky. I must mention that this is a netbook and has no cd-rom.

Someone else mentioned using the disk to boot to recovery console and running fixmbr ot fixboot.

 

It mentions what to do with a virtualized CD/DVD-ROM if you don't have a physical or USB one. Download Daemon Tools and run the IMG. This way you won't need to boot to a disc.

If you want, I've used fixmbr and fixboot, should work too, but you'll need a XP disc to boot to the repair console.

 

Hmm...but OP, you should have thought of this before you installed it...like knowing it's a netbook on all?!?!

 

install EasyBCD. it has an option to change boot order or delete it. I used it to delete vista showing up in the boot sector after i discovered vista 64bit was crap and wouldn't work with my laptop sound.

 

This may seem like a dumb question, but how did you get Windows 7? Is the beta useable enough to warrant a mini review? I'd love to what you thought of it.

 

Its Alpha or Pre-Beta, basically a simple feature build not much difference over Vista. There are even ways to unlock the new taskbar. This version does require a CD-Key, but it will accept prior Beta keys, like the Vista Beta (which alot of people got) or a legit Vista key. I'm in the process of getting my disc and am looking forward to playing with it. There is a full Beta coming soon, I just really haven't heard or remember when that is.

 

worked perfetctly! thanks so much! c

 

Ranger, I ran the command from XP with the OS mounted.

I had already both formatted and deleted the partition where it was previously installed.

I rebooted and it worked perfectly.

Many thanks.

 

soo.. RangerXML:

now, technically, this means the xp bootloader got replaced by the win7 bootloader, but inside of xp? or does it restore the original xp bootloader, including boot.ini?

just curious.

 

^^ now I am confused ...

 

I am, too..

the question is this: he had to use the win7 tools to make the partition bootable. that means, that it installs the win7 bootfiles (bootmgr and those) on the partition. not boot.ini, like xp used by itself?

so what it made was, using win7 tools, creating a win7 style boot setup on the partition, but it boots the xp files afterwards.


the reason why i ask is, if someone would do this, he couldn't afterwards fiddle in the boot.ini to reconfigure stuff. chances that i hit an xp machine fixed that way are very low, but it would just be nice to know..