Multiple Vista boot options

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

As I was stumbling around installing Vista Ultimate 32 I made some mistakes causing me to start over. The second installation went fine and the machine is runnin great. The only problem, really just an iritation, is when it boots up there is a multi-boot screen offering me two Vistas to choose from. Fortunately, the first one seems to be the good one so it will go ahead and boot without intervention. However, I'd like to get rid of the second boot option, and also delete the windows.old.000 directory.

From some investigation I've done on multiboot I know that Vista has a new
boot sequence and there is an editor called BCDEdit that can be used. Can I use this tool to get rid of the 2nd Vista?

TIA

Ed

.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: XP/Vista/7 triple boot problem
    ... I had a perfectly good dual boot Vista and XP system until I ... I installed Windows 7 RC to a new partition on the Vista (slave ... my install is the same - the files are almost exactly the same (as ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup)
  • Re: Dual Boot Instructions
    ... I ended up reinstalling Vista, ... The boot SECTOR is not the bootLOADER. ... finds the partition table for that HDD and sees that the first partition is ... violated, we no longer can simply install WinXP, install Vista and ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices)
  • Re: Multiple Vista boot options
    ... There would be a boot sector on both the XP and Vista drives. ... My goal was to install XP Pro on Drive 1 rather than Drive 0. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup)
  • Re: Dual Boot Instructions
    ... WinXP Setup WILL "corrupt" the Vista boot SECTOR. ... On the next reboot, when the system finds the HDD currently designated as the boot device and looks at the first physical sector, it finds the partition table for that HDD and sees that the first partition is Active so it reads the first physical sector of that partition. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices)
  • Re: Please help! Multi-boot option not working anymore
    ... First, when I boot up, I do see Vista's System Recovery Options ... list) does not repair the startup. ... repair mbr so that I can get vista up & running. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup)