Dual boot question

[maui454]

I have a toshiba laptop. It is running Vista Home Premium 32bit. I did a dual boot and installed windows 7 premium 32bit on a second partition. It installed fine but I ran into driver problems as well as a corrupt disc error. I decided to go back to vista and formatted the 7 partition. When I restart my pc I still get the option to boot into 7. How do I remove this option?

 

[d3aths3rver]

in vista type the windows button + r
that will open "run"
type in msconfig press enter
click the boot tab and make the default OS vista, delete the 7 entry

alternatively download easybcd Download EasyBCD 1.7.2 - NeoSmart Technologies
that's a software app that helps you to fix dual boot errors etc.

hope I helped mate

 

[maui454]

Thank you kindly sir. It worked well. Its too bad though because 7 seems cool. I guess I will have to wait until the bugs are ironed out.

 

[d3aths3rver]

maui454
Its not that windows 7 is corrupt or has plenty of bugs, I think there's a learning curve with dual-booting. it does take a bit of skill/patience/and know how
this windows technet article should point you in the right direction. It is the best OS ive used with a user-friendly GUI

Install Windows 7 Alongside Windows Vista for a Dual Boot System

next time, try doing a chkdsk /r in the command prompt to check your disk for errors before you kick off the dual boot (this will take a few hours, but will fix errors on your hard disk before installing)

it sounds like this might have been a problem last time.

 

[maui454]

I ran the chkdsk twice and it still said that the disc was corrupt. I reformatted the partition using vista so maybe it will work this time.

 

[d3aths3rver]

let me know if you have any issues. Just remember the software that toshiba supplies is probably the best thing to reformat the partition. alternatively restore toshiba to its original install from the cds that they gave you this could help. and add another partition for the windows 7 install, might make the install run more smoothly.