What I would suggest you do is use the Vista Ultimate upgrade DVD and rerun
setup again and choose an in-place upgrade over the current installation on
your drive.
--
Andre
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My Vista Quickstart Guide:
http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
<evilspoons@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi, I'm having a huge problem with a system. It's my cousin's, so it's
> not easy to get to and work on, so I had to make a big trip out to
> their place to fix it today because of the Windows Vista boot manager.
>
> To start with, the computer originally had Windows XP Home. He bought
> Windows Vista Ultimate Upgrade and installed it, everything works
> fine... except whenever the computer boots, it goes to the Vista boot
> manager and asks you to select Windows Vista or Windows XP Setup. So,
> I figured, this is an easy fix. You got to the system control panel,
> set 'default operating system' to Windows Vista, and the timeout to 0.
> Only... it starts the XP Setup every time, and ignores Vista
> completely.
>
> After a lot of troubleshooting, and I'm familiar with the bcdedit/
> bootsect/etc programs, I managed to get back into vista. I ran EasyBCD
> and to my great surprise it only lists Windows Vista as an entry in
> the BCD file!! There is no reference whatsoever to Windows XP Setup.
> Where is it coming from, and why does it take precedence over Vista as
> the default boot entry? It's really irritating to have to manually
> select Vista within 30 seconds every single time the computer is
> started up!
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.