Windows Boot Mnager Problem

Bought a HP PC just over a year ago now 1 month before VISTA was released and
was offered a free upgrade disc to vista when i bought it. I had to send
away for it, well it is only now iv'e braved installing it.

The problem is since the upgrade with Home Premium edition, everytime i
start up my pc the windows boot manager pops up at the start asking to boot
normally or choose a previous edition of windows. How do i stop it from
coming up? im worried someone will accidentally press the wrong thing at the
start.

Terra-Hawk;648577 Wrote:
> Bought a HP PC just over a year ago now 1 month before VISTA wa
> released an
> was offered a free upgrade disc to vista when i bought it. I had t
> sen
> away for it, well it is only now iv'e braved installing it
>
> The problem is since the upgrade with Home Premium edition, everytime
> start up my pc the windows boot manager pops up at the start asking t
> boo
> normally or choose a previous edition of windows. How do i stop i
> fro
> coming up? im worried someone will accidentally press the wrong thin
> at th
> start

Question - Do you still want to be able to boot into XP, or would yo
prefer to remain with Vista


- If you no longer want XP, I'd suggest then that you boot into th
XP install, backup to DVD all pertinent data, and then re-instal
Vista completely, this time formatting the drive
- If you don't want to format, then perhaps you can use the BCDEdi
tool to just remove the XP option entirely. This will afford you th
opportunity to boot into Vista only while still providing access t
the data file that existed for the XP install
- If you still want to keep XP, then perhaps you can simply chang
the default timeout for the default OS from 30 seconds to somethin
shorter, like 5 seconds, giving less time for someone to pick th
wrong one (XP). I can't give any details now on how to do this i
Vista, for reasons that are made clear in my signature

--
dzomlij

____________________
Peter Alexander Dzomlij
-Do you hear, huh? The Alpha and The Omega? Death and Rebirth? And a
you die, so shall I be Reborn...

:cry:-U--nfortunately, my rig (As seen i
http://www.vistax64.com/general-disc...tml#post533290
went south thanks to mother nature and a lightning bolt to the main
supply that my UPS could not stop. Now I'm just waiting for th
insurance payout, so I can build a new machine.-
' (http://s229.photobucket.com/albums/e...zomlija/Venus/)

You need to edit the BOOT.INI file.

Copy c:\boot.ini to boot.in_ (this will give you a recovery point -- you can
copy boot.in_ to boot.ini and restore the original operation).

Then go into the boot.ini file and edit so that Vista is the default OS. You
can do this from within the System dialog too, but I don't think tht method
gives a back up.

If there is no boot.ini file, Vista should still boot and make a new one.
You could simply rename boot.ini to boot.in_ and restart. I think the first
restart will give an error, but subsequent restarts should be clean.




"Terra-Hawk" <Terra-> wrote in message
news:383DA7DC-9827-4F17-9AE6-...
> Bought a HP PC just over a year ago now 1 month before VISTA was released
> and
> was offered a free upgrade disc to vista when i bought it. I had to send
> away for it, well it is only now iv'e braved installing it.
>
> The problem is since the upgrade with Home Premium edition, everytime i
> start up my pc the windows boot manager pops up at the start asking to
> boot
> normally or choose a previous edition of windows. How do i stop it from
> coming up? im worried someone will accidentally press the wrong thing at
> the
> start.

Sorry, I do not fully understand, where do i find these boot.ini files, where
are they located? can you please be abit more specific as i'm not very good
with computers.

Thankyou.

"Jeff Strickland" wrote:

> You need to edit the BOOT.INI file.
>
> Copy c:\boot.ini to boot.in_ (this will give you a recovery point -- you can
> copy boot.in_ to boot.ini and restore the original operation).
>
> Then go into the boot.ini file and edit so that Vista is the default OS. You
> can do this from within the System dialog too, but I don't think tht method
> gives a back up.
>
> If there is no boot.ini file, Vista should still boot and make a new one.
> You could simply rename boot.ini to boot.in_ and restart. I think the first
> restart will give an error, but subsequent restarts should be clean.
>
>
>
>
> "Terra-Hawk" <Terra-> wrote in message
> news:383DA7DC-9827-4F17-9AE6-...
> > Bought a HP PC just over a year ago now 1 month before VISTA was released
> > and
> > was offered a free upgrade disc to vista when i bought it. I had to send
> > away for it, well it is only now iv'e braved installing it.
> >
> > The problem is since the upgrade with Home Premium edition, everytime i
> > start up my pc the windows boot manager pops up at the start asking to
> > boot
> > normally or choose a previous edition of windows. How do i stop it from
> > coming up? im worried someone will accidentally press the wrong thing at
> > the
> > start.
>
>

Vista no longer uses BOOT.INI

Terra-Hawk needs to use BCDEdit to make changes to the boot
configuration. BOOT.INI exists only in multi-boot configurations where
older OSes (like Windows XP or Windows 2000) require their use. If Vista
is the only OS, then BOOT.INI does not exist, and will not be re-created
with any number of reboots.


--
dzomlija

_____________________
Peter Alexander Dzomlija
-Do you hear, huh? The Alpha and The Omega? Death and Rebirth? And as
you die, so shall I be Reborn...-

:cry:-U--nfortunately, my rig (As seen in
http://www.vistax64.com/general-disc...tml#post533290)
went south thanks to mother nature and a lightning bolt to the mains
supply that my UPS could not stop. Now I'm just waiting for the
insurance payout, so I can build a new machine.-'
' (http://s229.photobucket.com/albums/e...zomlija/Venus/)

I had to follow an instruction CD especially from HP so it would install
properly, i chose the Upgrade to vista option rather than start from scratch
because there wasnt an option to remove the old windows. The disc said to
upgrade so i was woried to even attpemt to remoe the old windows, plus there
wasnt an option anyway. There is nothing i want to save on my Hard Drive as
a power surge yesterday afternoon wiped it so i decided this was the time to
try vista. How do i remove the xp option entirely?

what would you suggest i do? a complete reformat?

thanks.



"dzomlija" wrote:

>
> Terra-Hawk;648577 Wrote:
> > Bought a HP PC just over a year ago now 1 month before VISTA was
> > released and
> > was offered a free upgrade disc to vista when i bought it. I had to
> > send
> > away for it, well it is only now iv'e braved installing it.
> >
> > The problem is since the upgrade with Home Premium edition, everytime i
> > start up my pc the windows boot manager pops up at the start asking to
> > boot
> > normally or choose a previous edition of windows. How do i stop it
> > from
> > coming up? im worried someone will accidentally press the wrong thing
> > at the
> > start.
>
>
> Question - Do you still want to be able to boot into XP, or would you
> prefer to remain with Vista?
>
>
> - If you no longer want XP, I'd suggest then that you boot into the
> XP install, backup to DVD all pertinent data, and then re-install
> Vista completely, this time formatting the drive.
> - If you don't want to format, then perhaps you can use the BCDEdit
> tool to just remove the XP option entirely. This will afford you the
> opportunity to boot into Vista only while still providing access to
> the data file that existed for the XP install.
> - If you still want to keep XP, then perhaps you can simply change
> the default timeout for the default OS from 30 seconds to something
> shorter, like 5 seconds, giving less time for someone to pick the
> wrong one (XP). I can't give any details now on how to do this in
> Vista, for reasons that are made clear in my signature.
>
>
> --
> dzomlija
>
> _____________________
> Peter Alexander Dzomlija
> -Do you hear, huh? The Alpha and The Omega? Death and Rebirth? And as
> you die, so shall I be Reborn...-
>
> :cry:-U--nfortunately, my rig (As seen in
> http://www.vistax64.com/general-disc...tml#post533290)
> went south thanks to mother nature and a lightning bolt to the mains
> supply that my UPS could not stop. Now I'm just waiting for the
> insurance payout, so I can build a new machine.-'
> ' (http://s229.photobucket.com/albums/e...zomlija/Venus/)
>

Terra-Hawk;648607 Wrote:
> I had to follow an instruction CD especially from HP so it would install
> properly, i chose the Upgrade to vista option rather than start from
> scratch because there wasnt an option to remove the old windows. The
> disc said to upgrade so i was woried to even attpemt to remoe the old
> windows, plus there wasnt an option anyway. There is nothing i want to
> save on my Hard Drive as a power surge yesterday afternoon wiped it so i
> decided this was the time to try vista. How do i remove the xp option
> entirely?
>
> what would you suggest i do? a complete reformat?
>
> thanks.


Sorry to hear about your hard drive - I lost my entire computer, and am
currently working on a machine loaned to me by my ISP.

The upgrade option is only available if you originally booted into XP,
and then started the Vista installer from within XP.

If you want start from scratch and only install Vista, then a full
format of the target drive to which you are installing is the best
method. You should boot from the DVD (you may ned to enter into you PC
BIOS and change the boot order so that your DVD drive is first), and
when you get to the stage when setup asks to which drive you want to
install, you should see the options to also format the drive.


--
dzomlija

_____________________
Peter Alexander Dzomlija
-Do you hear, huh? The Alpha and The Omega? Death and Rebirth? And as
you die, so shall I be Reborn...-

:cry:-U--nfortunately, my rig (As seen in
http://www.vistax64.com/general-disc...tml#post533290)
went south thanks to mother nature and a lightning bolt to the mains
supply that my UPS could not stop. Now I'm just waiting for the
insurance payout, so I can build a new machine.-'
' (http://s229.photobucket.com/albums/e...zomlija/Venus/)

Download and install either EasyBCD or VistaBootPro (both are free to
download - Google) Once installed you can easily follow the instructions to
clean up the Boot process to remove the unwanted entry

"Terra-Hawk" <Terra-> wrote in message
news:383DA7DC-9827-4F17-9AE6-...
> Bought a HP PC just over a year ago now 1 month before VISTA was released
> and
> was offered a free upgrade disc to vista when i bought it. I had to send
> away for it, well it is only now iv'e braved installing it.
>
> The problem is since the upgrade with Home Premium edition, everytime i
> start up my pc the windows boot manager pops up at the start asking to
> boot
> normally or choose a previous edition of windows. How do i stop it from
> coming up? im worried someone will accidentally press the wrong thing at
> the
> start.

Terra-Hawk wrote:

> Bought a HP PC just over a year ago now 1 month before VISTA was
> released and was offered a free upgrade disc to vista when i bought
> it. I had to send away for it, well it is only now iv'e braved
> installing it.
>
> The problem is since the upgrade with Home Premium edition, everytime
> i start up my pc the windows boot manager pops up at the start asking
> to boot normally or choose a previous edition of windows. How do i
> stop it from coming up? im worried someone will accidentally press
> the wrong thing at the start.

Hi Terra-Hawk,

At an elevated Command Prompt type:

bcdedit /delete {ntldr}

--
William Crawford
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

BOOT.INI is in the root directory. C:\BOOT.INI



"Terra-Hawk" <> wrote in message
news:A47B8150-5C87-4B75-8272-...
> Sorry, I do not fully understand, where do i find these boot.ini files,
> where
> are they located? can you please be abit more specific as i'm not very
> good
> with computers.
>
> Thankyou.
>
> "Jeff Strickland" wrote:
>
>> You need to edit the BOOT.INI file.
>>
>> Copy c:\boot.ini to boot.in_ (this will give you a recovery point -- you
>> can
>> copy boot.in_ to boot.ini and restore the original operation).
>>
>> Then go into the boot.ini file and edit so that Vista is the default OS.
>> You
>> can do this from within the System dialog too, but I don't think tht
>> method
>> gives a back up.
>>
>> If there is no boot.ini file, Vista should still boot and make a new one.
>> You could simply rename boot.ini to boot.in_ and restart. I think the
>> first
>> restart will give an error, but subsequent restarts should be clean.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "Terra-Hawk" <Terra-> wrote in message
>> news:383DA7DC-9827-4F17-9AE6-...
>> > Bought a HP PC just over a year ago now 1 month before VISTA was
>> > released
>> > and
>> > was offered a free upgrade disc to vista when i bought it. I had to
>> > send
>> > away for it, well it is only now iv'e braved installing it.
>> >
>> > The problem is since the upgrade with Home Premium edition, everytime i
>> > start up my pc the windows boot manager pops up at the start asking to
>> > boot
>> > normally or choose a previous edition of windows. How do i stop it
>> > from
>> > coming up? im worried someone will accidentally press the wrong thing
>> > at
>> > the
>> > start.
>>
>>