Solved remove unwanted boot-up OS choice

[tpd15]

Hi

(My first post, so be gentle, please! )

A few months ago I installed Jolicloud OS as an experiment (stupid me). I installed it onto a flash drive just so as not to mess up anything on my hdd. Anyway, when I tried to uninstall it the process failed (I later just reformatted the flash drive), but I am left with having to choose between Win7 & Jolicloud during boot up.

I have been into the Windows boot manager and JC isn't even listed, but at least I was able to set Win7 to the default so that it auto-choose that instead of JC. (I followed basically this procedure).

Can anyone tell me how to remove this boot-up menu?

thanks!
Toby.

 

[Maguscreed]

I've always done it using msconfig under the boot tab you can just delete os's listed there.

Assuming it is windows generating the boot prompt.

 

[Sardonicus]

Download EasyBCD 2.1 - NeoSmart Technologies

 

[tpd15]

That's where I was, and only Win7 is listed (see pic), but I definitely get the choice at boot.

 

[Maguscreed]

set the timeout to zero. If that doesn't do it you'll need his app because it's likely not windows making the prompt.

 

[ryo]

How to Remove or Uninstall Windows 7 from Dual Boot?

 

[gregrocker]

You'll also want to cleanly delete the boot listing from EasyBCD Edit Boot OS menu or it will remain in the BCD. Install Easy from link in post #3.

 

[theog]

How to uninstall Jolicloud OS:
How do I uninstall Joli OS? : Jolicloud Help Center

How to Restore the boot menu:
Use the commands FixMbr & FixBoot in this tutorial:
How to use the Bootrec.exe tool in the Windows Recovery Environment to troubleshoot and repair startup issues in Windows

 

[tpd15]

How to uninstall Jolicloud OS:
How do I uninstall Joli OS? : Jolicloud Help Center

How to Restore the boot menu:
Use the commands FixMbr & FixBoot in this tutorial:
How to use the Bootrec.exe tool in the Windows Recovery Environment to troubleshoot and repair startup issues in Windows

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Theog,

Thanks for the pointer -- I gave it a look, and I don't have the installation disk (I am pretty sure), but the ability to write a new boot record looks useful. Also, I had originally followed those same instructions that you linked to uninstall JoliCloud OS. But it failed, and left me with an inoperative JC OS.

thanks,
Toby.

 

[tpd15]

Download EasyBCD 2.1 - NeoSmart Technologies

p5bdkw: Yes. Yes I did want that software! It worked perfectly!! Thanks for the link. Very slick little app there.

thanks,
Toby.

 

[theog]

That is good news.