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Dual Boot startup screen
After installing Windows 7, the MBR was corrupted and I had to reinstall... no problem with 7, but now I have two instances of Windows7 on the mbr screen at startup. the one that works and a non-working one under it. Again, not a real problem, but for the sake of neatness, can I remove this line from the screen? I am still dual booting with XP until I am confident that all my processes will work in 7, then I will want to remove the XP partition and bypass the screen to choose the OS. Any place out there to get info on these things? Confession - the MBR was borked when I removed the IBM partition with XP utilities, etc and left the XP and 7 partitions, expanding 7 to use the space. Since I have Student download copy from DigitalRiver of 7 I don't have a disk to put in and repair. Disk is in the mail (right!) so a reinstall was the only fix I could come up with.
(Later) OK, I just read a little about a repair disk that I can make, now that I,m running again. Is this the right direction? Is there a fixmbr command?
I've seen the commands:
>FIXBOOT {driveletter}:
>FIXMBR
>BOOTCFG /rebuild
but will this be the correct command after deleting the XP partition?
Also, saw:
> bootrec /fixMBR
> bootrec /fixBoot
> bootrec /rebuildBCD
> bootrec /scanOS
No idea how to use these or if they are the correct commands... I could get into a terminal in Linux, but where do I find the "terminal" in seven? any details will be appreciated.
Last edited by wahoobob; 13 Nov 2009 at 12:34.