Multiple Vista Boot Images -- How to delete

- 'Had an un-bootable Vista HP Upgrade after a driver-install error.
- 'Fixed it with the installation disk diagnostic.
- Ever since, the boot process stops on an early page giving me the unwanted
opton of choosing which Vista I want to boot: the working one or the bad one.

I have no interest in the defective image and would like to fully delete it
-- from the disk and from the boot option.

I don't know the keywords to use in searching for help with this problem:
I'm sure there's a simple solution, but I've never felt I was even close in
my Search hits!

I'd appreciate a link (URL), keyword or instructions that would assist me.

Thanks!

Hi,

If it created a parallel installation, then you merely need to delete the
older system files (likely if this is the case it moved the old installation
to a windows.old file).

As to the boot options, run msconfig from the search line, and look on the
boot tab. There should be a listing here of the bootable lines where you can
remove the unwanted entry.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Basilisk Pie" <> wrote in message
news:91B08553-0E8B-484A-949F-...
>- 'Had an un-bootable Vista HP Upgrade after a driver-install error.
> - 'Fixed it with the installation disk diagnostic.
> - Ever since, the boot process stops on an early page giving me the
> unwanted
> opton of choosing which Vista I want to boot: the working one or the bad
> one.
>
> I have no interest in the defective image and would like to fully delete
> it
> -- from the disk and from the boot option.
>
> I don't know the keywords to use in searching for help with this problem:
> I'm sure there's a simple solution, but I've never felt I was even close
> in
> my Search hits!
>
> I'd appreciate a link (URL), keyword or instructions that would assist me.
>
> Thanks!

Holy Mackeral... I've only used MSCONFIG 100+ times (mostly the StartUp tab,
99+% of time under XP) and never understood that's one function of the BOOT
tab. Thanks!


I was "surprised" [massive understatement] to note the BOOT-tab listing
showed the defective image to be on the second disk: I hadn't even realized
I'd built this system with a second disk, though I recall the first Vista
intallation attempt failed (hung in boot) and I'd "switched" disks and
re-installed Vista successfully. Then I gave the PC to a friend -- one of
those gifts that always returns when there's a problem!

Now I wonder if the unbootable system (that I earlier mentioned occurred
after the failed driver-update) reflected a boot re-direction to the original
never-successful installation of Vista on that second drive! Either a m/b
problem or some boot configuration problem. How complicated. And I'll never
know... so it goes.


Well, the problem's solved, and as a "freebie" I've found the missing hard
drive I'd lost track of. Many thanks!

John -- clearly the -real- "Nutcase" in this thread!
______________________________________


"Rick Rogers" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> If it created a parallel installation, then you merely need to delete the
> older system files (likely if this is the case it moved the old installation
> to a windows.old file).
>
> As to the boot options, run msconfig from the search line, and look on the
> boot tab. There should be a listing here of the bootable lines where you can
> remove the unwanted entry.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "Basilisk Pie" <> wrote in message
> news:91B08553-0E8B-484A-949F-...
> >- 'Had an un-bootable Vista HP Upgrade after a driver-install error.
> > - 'Fixed it with the installation disk diagnostic.
> > - Ever since, the boot process stops on an early page giving me the
> > unwanted
> > opton of choosing which Vista I want to boot: the working one or the bad
> > one.
> >
> > I have no interest in the defective image and would like to fully delete
> > it
> > -- from the disk and from the boot option.
> >
> > I don't know the keywords to use in searching for help with this problem:
> > I'm sure there's a simple solution, but I've never felt I was even close
> > in
> > my Search hits!
> >
> > I'd appreciate a link (URL), keyword or instructions that would assist me.
> >
> > Thanks!
>
>