Vista - Removing Vista from a dual boot w/XP: fixmbr/fixboot not restoring boot.ini

Hi,

You've answered your own question. As Vista's boot files (the BCD stuff) is
on the XP volume, that is where it was loading from. VBP has taken care of
repointing the mbr to ntldr, so you should be fine to format the 3rd
partition.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Dan" <none@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the replies. I ran VistaBoot Pro & under Bootloader selected
> "Unistall the Vista boot loader/restore legacy OS. The pc now boots
> directly into XP. I removed the 2nd SATA drive (which contained the
> initial Vista install) to be sure no crucial boot function was located
> there, pc still boots into XP ok. Formatted the partition containing this
> Vista. So far so good. My concern is the 2nd vista install (3rd os
> installed after 1) xp & 2) the now removed Vista on the aforementioned 2nd
> sata) . This remaining Vista is on partition 3 of sata 1. The XP I want
> to retain is on partition 1 of this drive, along with the boot directory
> containing the BCD files etc. I am concered that if I just go ahead &
> format this Vista partition, I may still have some boot issue re: XP.
> Since it's a partition not a drive, I can't simply remove it as a test.
> One thing I note: boot.ini on C:\ (where XP is) has not changed in this
> process. Same content & file date. Might this indicate boot info/process
> is taking place somewhere other than c:\?
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Dan
>

Thanks Rick!

Dan

"Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> You've answered your own question. As Vista's boot files (the BCD stuff)
> is on the XP volume, that is where it was loading from. VBP has taken care
> of repointing the mbr to ntldr, so you should be fine to format the 3rd
> partition.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>
> "Dan" <none@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:GuydnVFUIfm5-wnYnZ2dnUVZ_oWdnZ2d@comcast.com...
>> Thanks for the replies. I ran VistaBoot Pro & under Bootloader selected
>> "Unistall the Vista boot loader/restore legacy OS. The pc now boots
>> directly into XP. I removed the 2nd SATA drive (which contained the
>> initial Vista install) to be sure no crucial boot function was located
>> there, pc still boots into XP ok. Formatted the partition containing
>> this Vista. So far so good. My concern is the 2nd vista install (3rd os
>> installed after 1) xp & 2) the now removed Vista on the aforementioned
>> 2nd sata) . This remaining Vista is on partition 3 of sata 1. The XP I
>> want to retain is on partition 1 of this drive, along with the boot
>> directory containing the BCD files etc. I am concered that if I just go
>> ahead & format this Vista partition, I may still have some boot issue re:
>> XP. Since it's a partition not a drive, I can't simply remove it as a
>> test. One thing I note: boot.ini on C:\ (where XP is) has not changed in
>> this process. Same content & file date. Might this indicate boot
>> info/process is taking place somewhere other than c:\?
>>
>> Thanks again,
>>
>> Dan
>>
>