Windows 7: Removing Windows 7 from boot menu

Hi, ive recently formatted and deleted the windows 7 partition from my harddrive, however i still have windows 7 option in the boot menu, to try and get rid of this i selected windows 7 hoping that some options to delete it from the menu would appear but none did and all i got was an error message telling me to reinstall windows or something.

XP works fine.



Anyone know how to remove windows 7 from the boot menu without actually still having it on a partition?

Yeah, EasyBCD will do it. Click on Manage Bootloader > Uninstall the Vista Bootloader > Write MBR button.

did this work? im trying to get rid of an old install of windows also, but Im looking for a way to do it without the BCD program... any thoughts?

You need to fix your MBR (master boot record)

1. Boot of your XP disk and choose to repair Windows
2. Get to a command prompt screen/DOS screen whatever
3. Enter the command- "bootrec /fixmbr"

no quotes of course

bootrec is for Vista/Windows 7, not XP

If memory serves... (It's been a while!)

1 - Right-click on My Computer
2 - Select the Advanced tab
3 - Select Settings in the 'Startup and Recovery' section.
4 - In the 'Default Operating System' drop-down, select Windows XP
5 - Select Ok.

Going from memory on that one, hope it's accurate but that should do it.

That's not going to remove it as he asked.

Then I don't understand his question. As I read it, he had a dual boot XP/7 and he deleted the 7 partition but XP is still trying to boot into 7?

Correct, "fdisk /mbr" is for XP.

Technically the OP only asked to remove the boot entry not the bootloader, but yes he would need to use bcdedit instead of an XP program.

"fdisk /mbr"? Fdisk is the old dos partitioning tool for Fat based versions(9x-ME).

To see the XP installation return to it's original configuration you would boot upto the recovery console by using the "press R for repair" option while booting from the XP disk to reach that.

Once you are logged on as administrator when selecting the XP installation detected you simply use the "fixboot" and "fixmbr" commands and restart the system for a normail XP startup.

You won't be able to remove the boot folder the 7 installer placed there unless you can take ownership as well as gain the permissions needed to uncheck the read only box in the properties. But you will no longer be booting from the bootmgr but XP's ntldr file and boot.ini configuration.