Problem when booting

[ipodvi]

Hi, so I had xp and installed a copy of Win7 utl. Later I found out I was fooled and the key was no good. I found a way to get back to XP. Now I bought win7 Home Premium form office max and yes it's real. But now when I boot I am having problems and it is almost trying to boot into the win7 ult. Is there a way I can get rid of the win7 ult? When I boot it has a boot error then it lets me pick win7 Home Premium and boots up like normal. I don't want to do this every time I start my pc is there a fix for this? Thanks

 

[linnemeyerhere]

ipodvi welcome to SF,
It's been awhile since I had this issue but if you scroll down to Ult. and right click you should be able to delete this drop down!

 

[ipodvi]

ipodvi welcome to SF,
It's been awhile since I had this issue but if you scroll down to Ult. and right click you should be able to delete this drop down!

Do you mean find the win7 folder in windows explorer and delete the foledr?

 

[linnemeyerhere]

ipodvi,
I gave this a try and no that advice won't work. I'll keep trying things and post what works. I've done this before but it was in XP. Cheers and maybe someone else will get you an answer faster.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello ipodvi, welcome to Seven Forums!



Before we make any specific recommendations will you please post a snip/screen-shot of the entire disk management drive map with a full description as to which drive/partition is which, so we can see what you have going on as there may be a fairly simple way to resolve the situation.

In the Windows start menu right click computer and click manage, in the left pane of the "Computer Management" window that opens click disk management and post a snip of that.


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[ipodvi]

 

[theog]

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As you have 4 ACTIVE drives, how many OS have you installed?

 

[gregrocker]

Mark all non-OS partition's Inactive using free Partition Wizard.

Wipe the target HD before install: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/91339-ssd-hdd-optimize-windows-reinstallation.html

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Non OS HDD/partition(s) can also be marked Inactive using diskpart from an elevated command windows using this snip as an outline, obviously you would enter your disk/partition information.

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[ipodvi]

So what your saying is that I need to wipe my hdd that has the 2 windows 7 os on them?

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

So what your saying is that I need to wipe my hdd that has the 2 windows 7 os on them?

To whom are you referring?

 

[ipodvi]

So what your saying is that I need to wipe my hdd that has the 2 windows 7 os on them?

To whom are you referring?

I was wondering if that is what you want me to do when you wanted me to mark the different hdd without an os on it. What will that do for me?

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

A wipe and marking a HDD/partition Inactive are 2 entirely different processes; if you would read the post it says ...


"Non OS HDD/partition(s) can also be marked Inactive"




If there are OSs on those HDD/partition(s) I would neither wipe them or mark them inactive.

 

[ipodvi]

A wipe and marking a HDD/partition Inactive are 2 entirely different processes; if you would read the post it says ...


"Non OS HDD/partition(s) can also be marked Inactive"




If there are OSs on those HDD/partition(s) I would neither wipe them or mark them inactive.

Ok so then if I have the 2 OSs on 1 partition on 1 HDD then what should I do to get rid of one of the 2 OSs? Or just tell it to boot to home prem?

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

The Disk 1 C: is the OS you are booted into right now and it is also the one that contains the boot files for the entire system; what other(s) do you want to remove from the system and is there data on that/those OSs you want to save?

 

[ipodvi]

There is data on the windows 7 home that I am booting into now. But b4 I installed windows 7 home I installed win7 ult. But I was given a fake key for win7 ult. so I went back to XP. I think the win7 ult. data is still left but I dont need anything from the win7 ult. So I want to get rid of that.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

You still haven't said what HDD it is on but it doesn't matter; if there is nothing on that HDD you need to save, then a wipe (secure erase) would be in order, in an elevated command window, do step #7 so you can't do the "System" OS partition (Windows won't allow it) and you can do it still booted into Windows; just be VERY SURE to do the correct HDD as it is not reversible once done.


Disk - Clean and Clean All with Diskpart Command

 

[ipodvi]

You still haven't said what HDD it is on but it doesn't matter; if there is nothing on that HDD you need to save, then a wipe (secure erase) would be in order but use step #7 in this tutorial in an elevated command window to do it so you can't do the "System" OS partition (Windows won't allow it) and you can do it still booted into Windows; just be VERY SURE to do the correct HDD as it is not reversible once done.


Disk - Clean and Clean All with Diskpart Command

I need things on the HDD but nothing that was from the win7 ult. OS. By the way both OSs are on the C drive.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

I just looked again and you do not have 2 separate OS on any single HDD, there is a single partitions on each HDD, there can't be 2 OSs on any of them.

 

[ipodvi]

I just looked again and you do not have 2 separate OS on any single HDD, there is a single partitions on each HDD, there can't be 2 OSs on any of them.

Well what I am having a problem with is when it first try to boot I get an error which is oxc0000000f. Then I hit enter to contintue. Then it asks me if I want to repair or start windows normaly. I start it normaly and it works. But I think the error is from when I first installed Win7 ult. Could this be?
It says,
\$windows.~BT\WINDOWS\system32\winload.exe
is missing or damaged.