Windows 7 boot menu shows Vista after clean install


  1. Posts : 1
    Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit
       #1

    Windows 7 boot menu shows Vista after clean install


    I did a clean install of Windows 7 Ultimate onto my Vista Ultimate Boot Camp Partition (on my MacBook Pro), rather than an upgrade install.

    Windows 7 told me that it would move Vista to a folder called Windows.old or something like that.

    Fine. After everything was installed, I used Disk Cleanup to delete that folder, and the space was recovered on my partition

    But when booting into Windows 7, I get a boot menu that seems to indicate Vista is still there.

    EasyBCD shows:

    Entry #1
    Name: Windows 7
    BCD ID: {current}
    Drive: C:\
    Bootloader Path: \Windows\system32\winload.exe
    Windows Directory: \Windows

    Entry #2
    Name: Windows Vista (TM) Business (recovered)
    BCD ID: {6ab21afe-f2e6-11db-868a-d1f6649ce9c4}
    Drive: Active Boot Partition
    Bootloader Path: \Windows\system32\winload.exe
    Windows Directory: \Windows

    So my question is, can I simply delete Entry 2? Or is there other remaining stuff from Vista still on my drive somewhere that I should also delete? What is the drive "Active Boot Partition"?

    I wish W7 gave an option to do a clean install WITHOUT keeping the old system around...The whole point of doing the clean install was to get rid of all the accumulated junk and start fresh.

    Thanks for any advice...
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  2. Posts : 28,845
    Win 8 Release candidate 8400
       #2

    siamesekitten said:
    I did a clean install of Windows 7 Ultimate onto my Vista Ultimate Boot Camp Partition (on my MacBook Pro), rather than an upgrade install.

    Windows 7 told me that it would move Vista to a folder called Windows.old or something like that.

    Fine. After everything was installed, I used Disk Cleanup to delete that folder, and the space was recovered on my partition

    But when booting into Windows 7, I get a boot menu that seems to indicate Vista is still there.

    EasyBCD shows:

    Entry #1
    Name: Windows 7
    BCD ID: {current}
    Drive: C:\
    Bootloader Path: \Windows\system32\winload.exe
    Windows Directory: \Windows

    Entry #2
    Name: Windows Vista (TM) Business (recovered)
    BCD ID: {6ab21afe-f2e6-11db-868a-d1f6649ce9c4}
    Drive: Active Boot Partition
    Bootloader Path: \Windows\system32\winload.exe
    Windows Directory: \Windows

    So my question is, can I simply delete Entry 2? Or is there other remaining stuff from Vista still on my drive somewhere that I should also delete? What is the drive "Active Boot Partition"?

    I wish W7 gave an option to do a clean install WITHOUT keeping the old system around...The whole point of doing the clean install was to get rid of all the accumulated junk and start fresh.

    Thanks for any advice...
    A clean install means formatting the drive/partition and re-installing all of your apps.
    Since you are running it in boot camp I wonder if you can do a "clean" install.

    Once you have everything you need out of windows.old you can delete it. If it gives you grief you can use disk cleanup to get rid of it

    RE; boot menu entries you probably can. You might have to edit the boot manager with bcd. you had vista on first so there may be boot files in a hidden boof folder. Do view all files and look in the root of c: to see if it is there

    Sorry this wasn't more clear

    Ken
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  3. Posts : 16,132
    7 X64
       #3

    Use Easybcd to remove the Vista entry - it will be fine.
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