Recent content by pnolans

actually, yes I do. Of course, when I set it up the first time, I knew then too! :) At this time, I'm not dual booting anywhere. I have w7 machines, and XP machines. also, linux, os x and even (shudder!) Vista. Again, thanks for your help.

Yeah, thanks a lot. I figured a way to do it.... I simply re-installed W7, then used bootmgr to change the default boot , and then blew away the w7 partition ! :) I agree with some of your comments. Appreciate the work.

As I said in my earlier note, AT THIS TIME there are NO other OS'es on that drive. But for some period of time , while I was evaluating Windows 7, both of them ran off of one partition. There are STILL vestiges of that OS on the C:\ drive, and it comes up in the Windows 7 boot mgr. So...

I wish it was that easy. I installed it on my one system drive, my "c:\" drive. Thus WY modified my C drive. And my boot.ini has nothing related to W7. When W7 was installed, it appears it moved a lot of files that WINDOWS XP expects to find. There is a BOOTSECT.BAK there now. There...

When W7 was still in evaluation mode, I did a dual boot thing on one of my XP boxes. Later, I bought W7 and installed it on it's very own computer. Now, I have an XP system that BY DEFAULT tries to boot into Windows 7. Which is no longer there. I don't MIND the dual boot questions that...