Vista - How to change Dual boot to Individual boot.

If you have done things correctly, when booted into XP from the XP mbr you
will be able to go to the Vista drive and delete them. You will be asked if
you really want to delete a system file, answer yes and they're gone.


"churin" <churin@new.postalias> wrote in message
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> John Barnes wrote:
>>> I assume that you mean to say:
>>>
>>> "When you installed WVT, you had the WXP drive as your system drive,
>>> therefor the WVT "System" files were placed there."
>>
>> Yes
>>
>>
>> Use WXP Recovery console and do the fixboot (make sure that xp is your
>> system drive or you will mess up Vista - or if you know how to do it
>> determine the drive as enumerated in RC by using map and determine the xp
>> drive, then add that drive letter to the fixboot command see fixboot /?
>> for info). You will have to remove any Vista files manually. There in
>> nothing that I know of to remove them, only render them inactive
>> (bypass-ignore, you pick the word you like)
>>
>
> You say "You will have to remove any Vista files manually" but my question
> 1) in the origianl post is "How to do it" because I was unable to do it. I
> attempted to do from another WXP which is installed in the same hardware
> system but to no avail.

Note the drive from which WVT's "System" files need be deleted is not
the WVT drive but the WXP drive. Anyway, I guess I have to figure out
how to delete those files by myself since we have discussed about it
long enough. Thank you anyway for your many responses.

John Barnes wrote:
> If you have done things correctly, when booted into XP from the XP mbr you
> will be able to go to the Vista drive and delete them. You will be asked if
> you really want to delete a system file, answer yes and they're gone.
>
>
> "churin" <churin@new.postalias> wrote in message
> news:%23snQeCI%23GHA.748@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> John Barnes wrote:
>>>> I assume that you mean to say:
>>>>
>>>> "When you installed WVT, you had the WXP drive as your system drive,
>>>> therefor the WVT "System" files were placed there."
>>> Yes
>>>
>>>
>>> Use WXP Recovery console and do the fixboot (make sure that xp is your
>>> system drive or you will mess up Vista - or if you know how to do it
>>> determine the drive as enumerated in RC by using map and determine the xp
>>> drive, then add that drive letter to the fixboot command see fixboot /?
>>> for info). You will have to remove any Vista files manually. There in
>>> nothing that I know of to remove them, only render them inactive
>>> (bypass-ignore, you pick the word you like)
>>>
>> You say "You will have to remove any Vista files manually" but my question
>> 1) in the origianl post is "How to do it" because I was unable to do it. I
>> attempted to do from another WXP which is installed in the same hardware
>> system but to no avail.
>
>

Don't know what is so difficult about booting into either system, open
explorer for the drive XP is on and delete the Vista files you want to
delete. Since that seems too difficult for you to do, just leave them, they
don't hurt anything and now shouldn't be used anyway. Goodbye and good
luck.


"churin" <churin@new.postalias> wrote in message
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> Note the drive from which WVT's "System" files need be deleted is not the
> WVT drive but the WXP drive. Anyway, I guess I have to figure out how to
> delete those files by myself since we have discussed about it long enough.
> Thank you anyway for your many responses.
>
> John Barnes wrote:
>> If you have done things correctly, when booted into XP from the XP mbr
>> you will be able to go to the Vista drive and delete them. You will be
>> asked if you really want to delete a system file, answer yes and they're
>> gone.
>>
>>
>> "churin" <churin@new.postalias> wrote in message
>> news:%23snQeCI%23GHA.748@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>> John Barnes wrote:
>>>>> I assume that you mean to say:
>>>>>
>>>>> "When you installed WVT, you had the WXP drive as your system drive,
>>>>> therefor the WVT "System" files were placed there."
>>>> Yes
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Use WXP Recovery console and do the fixboot (make sure that xp is your
>>>> system drive or you will mess up Vista - or if you know how to do it
>>>> determine the drive as enumerated in RC by using map and determine the
>>>> xp drive, then add that drive letter to the fixboot command see fixboot
>>>> /? for info). You will have to remove any Vista files manually. There
>>>> in nothing that I know of to remove them, only render them inactive
>>>> (bypass-ignore, you pick the word you like)
>>>>
>>> You say "You will have to remove any Vista files manually" but my
>>> question 1) in the origianl post is "How to do it" because I was unable
>>> to do it. I attempted to do from another WXP which is installed in the
>>> same hardware system but to no avail.
>>

which files are you having issues with? i have set up my system in the same
manner multiple times--since build 5436 and also running and setting up a
number of Linux OS's (well 5 different ones) have not noticed any issues with
accesing files from my XP drive. i have this system for testing so let me
know if you want to try something. BTW you should be able to change the drive
letter of WVT when booted in WXP.

But only in WXP. Will still stay the same in WVT. Drive letters are
carried in the registry when first set up. Within an os, any drive letter
can be changed except the system drive and boot drive.

"Confucious" <Confucious@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
> which files are you having issues with? i have set up my system in the
> same
> manner multiple times--since build 5436 and also running and setting up a
> number of Linux OS's (well 5 different ones) have not noticed any issues
> with
> accesing files from my XP drive. i have this system for testing so let me
> know if you want to try something. BTW you should be able to change the
> drive
> letter of WVT when booted in WXP.

The issue is NOT with accessing files in WVT from WXP:The issue is with
accessing files in the WXP from itself. The files are those of "System"
files of the WVT residing in the WXP drive. Normally drive name assigned
to WXP drive can be removed from the WVT but I found it not possible
because the WVT's "System" files are sitting in the WXP. The WVT's
"System" files are not supposed to be there.(See one of those previous
posts for the way WVT was installed) Maybe there is something wrong or
abnormal with the hardware or the BIOS. I attempted to correct this
problem by symptomatical apprroach, that is to remove the "System" files
from WXP. I even attempted to do it from another installed WXP in the
same hardware but to no avail. My last resort to do so is to reinstall WXP.
Note that I have installed OS(W2K, WXP, WXPx64, W2K3, Linux, WVT, etc)
in the same way many times but this problem never happend.

Confucious wrote:
> which files are you having issues with? i have set up my system in the same
> manner multiple times--since build 5436 and also running and setting up a
> number of Linux OS's (well 5 different ones) have not noticed any issues with
> accesing files from my XP drive. i have this system for testing so let me
> know if you want to try something. BTW you should be able to change the drive
> letter of WVT when booted in WXP.

you said,

"The WXP was on
the master drive. The first boot priority drive was swithed from the
master to the slave, then the WVT was installed. Drive name for the WVT
is correctly assigned as C: but the WVT's "System" files went into WXP
drive instead of WVT drive which is contrary to what I expected."

i know this is a silly question but; you also changed the cable accordingly
correct? as im sure you did, that is really strange, not sure why WVT would
split like that. i will have to ask around adn see if i can come up with
something. the only thing i would suggest is remove the WXP drive (since it
is OK and bootable) and boot the WVT drive with the DVD and try to do a
system repair. since you have system files in the WXP drive trying to boot
the WVT drive all by it self should give an error. for now that is all i can
suggest.
this is a good one!!

Confucious wrote:
> you said,
>
> "The WXP was on
> the master drive. The first boot priority drive was swithed from the
> master to the slave, then the WVT was installed. Drive name for the WVT
> is correctly assigned as C: but the WVT's "System" files went into WXP
> drive instead of WVT drive which is contrary to what I expected."
>
> i know this is a silly question but; you also changed the cable accordingly
> correct? as im sure you did,
No, I did not do that. But suppose I did, then the volume label for the
WXP would have remained being C: when WVT boots. I did not do what would
have undone the change of boot order priority by BIOS setting change.

that is really strange, not sure why WVT would
> split like that.

It is indeed strange. I already indicated this in my former post but
there may be something wrong or unusual about the BIOS or the hardware
since this never happened with other hardwares I worked on.

Anyway, I gave up trying to delete the left-over "System" files from WXP
and instead, restored a backup of the WXP, which then resolved the
problem. How to delete the files is my primary question because the
expected end result never be realized without doiing so. I did not know
why I had difficulty deleting the files in orphaned condition as such.

Thanks anyway for your continued follow-up.