EasyBCD is the way to go after you install it, you can just remove the bootloader for the OS you dont want anymore
Can I remove the dual boot menu? [SOLVED]
UPDATE: I have successfully removed the dual-boot menu! It turned out that all I had to do was use FIXBOOT!
For those of you who are curious, I did the following:
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Original post of this thread:
I have a dual-boot menu on my XP hard drive that was created during the installation of the official Release Candidate of Windows 7, and so now I want to get rid of it. Oh, and just in case you're wondering about the dual-boot menu, I installed the official RC of 7 on a separate, clean hard drive. So anyway, can I completely remove the dual-boot menu off my XP hard drive? If so, then how? But if not, then that's cool too. Thank you for looking at my thread!
For those of you who are curious, I did the following:
- Boot from the XP installation CD and wait for it to finish loading everything.
- Choose "R" to go into the Recovery mode using a command console (it's just like DOS).
- Type fixboot and press Enter.
Original post of this thread:
I have a dual-boot menu on my XP hard drive that was created during the installation of the official Release Candidate of Windows 7, and so now I want to get rid of it. Oh, and just in case you're wondering about the dual-boot menu, I installed the official RC of 7 on a separate, clean hard drive. So anyway, can I completely remove the dual-boot menu off my XP hard drive? If so, then how? But if not, then that's cool too. Thank you for looking at my thread!
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Originally Posted by MadCatMk2 Boot into XP and delete everything but the entry you want to have. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289022 If something goes wrong you can probably still restore it via 7. |
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I used bootcfg /default /id 1, but it didn't make any changes to the file, so I'm not going to reboot in order to test it.
Here's the file:
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So my next question is this: if I use bootcfg /delete /id 1, then what might happen?
Originally Posted by MadCatMk2 Boot into XP and delete everything but the entry you want to have. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289022 If something goes wrong you can probably still restore it via 7. |
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Originally Posted by criminal This. |
Here's the file:
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| [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\\WINDO WS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\\WINDOWS="Micr osoft Windows XP Professional" /FASTDETECT /NOEXECUTE=OPTOUT /NOGUIBOOT |
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I know. This has been bugging me ever since the official Release Candidate created the boot menu on this hard drive. But now I want to remove it, not reduce it to just a couple of seconds.
What would happen if bypassed boot.ini?
Originally Posted by MadCatMk2 I only see one OS. Change the timeout to something like 3 seconds and you're done. |
What would happen if bypassed boot.ini?
UPDATE: I have successfully removed the dual-boot menu! It turned out that all I had to do was use FIXBOOT!
For those of you who are curious, I did the following:
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For those of you who are curious, I did the following:
- Boot from the XP installation CD and wait for it to finish loading everything.
- Choose "R" to go into the Recovery mode using a command console (it's just like DOS).
- Type fixboot and press Enter.
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