Do i need to reformat my drive to get rid of the message?

Question

I recently installed windows vista on my computer on another drive seperate from my windows xp one. I didnt like it so I went back to my xp. Now when ever I turn my computer on it tells me to pick windows vista or an older version of windows which is my xp. Is there any way to get rid of that message?

Answer 1

Search your computer for a file named boot.ini (it's found directly on C drive in XP, not sure in Vista). To be safe, make a copy of the file first. Then open the original in Notepad. Boot.ini lists the operating systems that you can boot to. Look under the section labeled [operating systems]. Delete the line that contains the operating system you don't want. Each bootable operating system will be listed on its own line. Here's an example:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

After deleting the unwanted line, save the file and restart the computer.

Answer 2

Try putting in your Windows XP or Vista CD from boot, and goto the beginning of the from-boot install formatting ONLY the partiion with Vista on it, and then go into XP and you should be able to format it from XP to have more space.

Basically, u just need to delete the slice of your HDD with vista on it.

Answer 3

Not really. The only way would be to remove the drive with Vista and make your XP drive the boot drive.... Try not to do it if you are unexperienced - it is always risky to do this. I would rather live with the message than have to re-install everything...

Answer 4

Just restore XP back a few days,that would be easier to do.

Answer 5

right click my computer/go to properties/advanced /startup and recovery/settings/uncheck the top box that says time to display operating systems/then ok and ok restart the pc