I installed W7 but needed to get rid of it (I did the 32-bit and I'm going to get 4 more GB to bump to 8GB of RAM soon so need the 64-bit) but I am stuck with the W7 boot menu and I can't get XP's back!
I have a 500GB drive that I had 320 to XP and 50GB then the rest (about 75GB) unallocated.
I booted to XP and Managed My Computer and deleted the W7 partition entirely.
I then restarted to the XP disc and choose to repair and ran the FIXMBR command.
all gravy, right?
no. It still shows the W7 start up screen and if I load up XP and run MSCONFIG I have this:
;
;Warning: Boot.ini is used on Windows XP and earlier operating systems.
;Warning: Use BCDEDIT.exe to modify Windows Vista boot options.
;
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT
What am I to do? I want it to just boot straight into XP but instead I am given the start up selection, which has W7 as the default... but it doesn't exist.
I have a 500GB drive that I had 320 to XP and 50GB then the rest (about 75GB) unallocated.
I booted to XP and Managed My Computer and deleted the W7 partition entirely.
I then restarted to the XP disc and choose to repair and ran the FIXMBR command.
all gravy, right?
no. It still shows the W7 start up screen and if I load up XP and run MSCONFIG I have this:
;
;Warning: Boot.ini is used on Windows XP and earlier operating systems.
;Warning: Use BCDEDIT.exe to modify Windows Vista boot options.
;
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT
What am I to do? I want it to just boot straight into XP but instead I am given the start up selection, which has W7 as the default... but it doesn't exist.
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