Vista/XP Boot

Hi, I have a system with 2GB Ram, 2.8 dual core Cpu, 9600 512mb Graphics
card, 160 GB HDD.
I did a Vista installation that was not completed. It had XP on before. The
Vista disk is not useable, having being stepped on my the wife ... I now
get a boot menu, with the option of booting to Vista and "EARLIER VERSION OF
WINDOWS" .I choose the earlier version and all is well. It boots into XP
with no hassel. If I choose Vista, the blue screen of death appears. How can
I remove the Vista/boot menu/ or whatever else to just keep it as it is with
XP.
Cheers.

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Spook

Hi,

You need to boot the system with the XP disk and run fixboot from the
command line of the recovery console.

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Best of Luck,

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

"Spook" <> wrote in message
news:B7A44C17-93DA-4860-90C9-...
> Hi, I have a system with 2GB Ram, 2.8 dual core Cpu, 9600 512mb Graphics
> card, 160 GB HDD.
> I did a Vista installation that was not completed. It had XP on before.
> The Vista disk is not useable, having being stepped on my the wife ... I
> now get a boot menu, with the option of booting to Vista and "EARLIER
> VERSION OF WINDOWS" .I choose the earlier version and all is well. It
> boots into XP with no hassel. If I choose Vista, the blue screen of death
> appears. How can I remove the Vista/boot menu/ or whatever else to just
> keep it as it is with XP.
> Cheers.
>
> --
> Spook
>
>

Many thanks

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Spook


"Rick Rogers" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi,
>
> You need to boot the system with the XP disk and run fixboot from the
> command line of the recovery console.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> Vote for my shoe: http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "Spook" <> wrote in message
> news:B7A44C17-93DA-4860-90C9-...
>> Hi, I have a system with 2GB Ram, 2.8 dual core Cpu, 9600 512mb Graphics
>> card, 160 GB HDD.
>> I did a Vista installation that was not completed. It had XP on before.
>> The Vista disk is not useable, having being stepped on my the wife ... I
>> now get a boot menu, with the option of booting to Vista and "EARLIER
>> VERSION OF WINDOWS" .I choose the earlier version and all is well. It
>> boots into XP with no hassel. If I choose Vista, the blue screen of death
>> appears. How can I remove the Vista/boot menu/ or whatever else to just
>> keep it as it is with XP.
>> Cheers.
>>
>> --
>> Spook
>>
>>
>