My stupidity with other OS's

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  1. Posts : 8
    Win7
       #1

    My stupidity with other OS's


    Hey guys, kinda new here, I know a little bit about computers but not a lot... I was experimenting with some other OS's (Ubuntu, Fedora, WinXP, etc.) and I decided just to keep 7 for now and delete the rest. Well, all the OS's came off fine, I reinstalled 7 with no problem, I just have one thing that's annoying me... it still doesn't just boot 7 automatically, it asks if I want to boot Win7 or "an older version of Windows". Of course, whenever you click it it just basically says nothing is there, because there is nothing there... I just want to know if anyone knows how to remove this option so Win7 just boots without any other options. I know it's probably impossible to remove it COMPLETELY, so even if there is just a configuration in Win7 that just boots Win7 without asking to boot any other OS's but doesn't delete your old OS's, that'd be fine. Any help would be appreciated, I'd just like to get rid of the "older Windows" option lol.
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  2. Posts : 31,249
    Windows 11 Pro x64 [Latest Release and Release Preview]
       #2

    Type "msconfig.exe" into the start search and run the program presented

    One the Boot tab of the application you should see the two start-up choices you are seeing

    simply select and delete the entry you do not need
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  3. Posts : 8
    Win7
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Barman58 said:
    Type "msconfig.exe" into the start search and run the program presented

    One the Boot tab of the application you should see the two start-up choices you are seeing

    simply select and delete the entry you do not need
    I've actually used msconfig already, but all that shows up is Win7. I used that to delete a previous 3rd option, a dead link to a second Win7 (I still don't fully understand what happened there). I've done the disc clean up and disk clean up and disk defragment but nothings worked, I'm at a loss :'(
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  4. Posts : 31,249
    Windows 11 Pro x64 [Latest Release and Release Preview]
       #4

    OK check your install for a widows.old folder which may be the remains of an previous win7 install or it may be the remains of an old copy of XP on another partition - I would delete and remake any other unused partitions to be totally sure of cleaning them fully.

    It may be useful if you could post a screenshot of your current partitions
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  5. Posts : 8
    Win7
    Thread Starter
       #5

    Alright, I screenshotted, it's just the reserve and c:/ right now evidently :/
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails My stupidity with other OS's-partitions.png  
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  6. Posts : 8
    Win7
    Thread Starter
       #6

    Does anyone else think they could have any idea what this might be? Sorry for self bumping here.
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  7. Posts : 31,249
    Windows 11 Pro x64 [Latest Release and Release Preview]
       #7

    The system is booting from the system reserved partition ( the actual partition that win7 is on is a logical drive ), and the boot sector appears to be corrupted.

    Have put a request in to check if anyone else here has seen this before, hopefully there will be someone who can suggest something better than repartitioning.
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  8. Posts : 11,408
    ME/XP/Vista/Win7
       #8

    Looks like you still have linux code left over.
    All Linux code must be deleted.As you have had linux on the HD you need do a Clean all & full format.
    Disk - Clean and Clean All with Diskpart Command
    Partition or Volume - Delete
    Partition or Volume - Create New
    Partition - Mark as Active
    Try a full clean & full format in command prompt.
    1) Boot DVD & Press Shift+F10 (for command prompt)
    2) Boot DVD, & Command Prompt at Startup
    (for command prompt)

    Type in command line
    DISKPART
    LIST DISK
    SELECT DISK # (win HD)
    CLEAN ALL
    CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
    SELECT PARTITION 1
    ACTIVE
    FORMAT fs=NTFS
    ASSIGN
    EXIT
    EXIT

    My stupidity with other OS's-list-disk.png
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  9. Posts : 8
    Win7
    Thread Starter
       #9

    theog said:
    Looks like you still have linux code left over.
    All Linux code must be deleted.As you have had linux on the HD you need do a Clean all & full format.
    Disk - Clean and Clean All with Diskpart Command
    Partition or Volume - Delete
    Partition or Volume - Create New
    Partition - Mark as Active
    Try a full clean & full format in command prompt.
    1) Boot DVD & Press Shift+F10 (for command prompt)
    2) Boot DVD, & Command Prompt at Startup
    (for command prompt)

    Type in command line
    DISKPART
    LIST DISK
    SELECT DISK # (win HD)
    CLEAN ALL
    CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
    SELECT PARTITION 1
    ACTIVE
    FORMAT fs=NTFS
    ASSIGN
    EXIT
    EXIT

    My stupidity with other OS's-list-disk.png
    Thank you, I'll get on that right now, I appreciate your help :) Also thank you Barman, you've been very kind, it's nice to be in such a kind and helpful community
    Last edited by Azuremein; 29 Jul 2010 at 17:52. Reason: Forgot to thank Barman for his help
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  10. Posts : 2,726
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
       #10

    have you had a looky here pal
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