Re: change which os handles booting

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That won't work because I am only using the XP OS, can't log into Vista. And
Vista has control of the booting.

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I have XP on the primary partition and a beta copy of Vista on the 2nd
partition. Currently Vista, installed second, controls the booting
sequence. I want to uninstall Vista though and change the boot record so
XP handles the booting. Is there an easy way to do this? Would 'fixboot'
or 'fixmbr' from the recovery console do it?

-Nathan


Just run msconfig.exe and click "Set as Default".



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