Revert back to win 7 Boot up

[disgo55]

Iv installed win 7 on one drive,XP on another.
During boot up,i have the option to boot C:windows 7(Primary),or older OS,IE D:WinXP.
I would like to format the XP drive,& do away with the options in boot.
Any help please.Thanks

 

[garysgold]

Hello disgo55,

Welcome to Seven Forums.

Type msconfig into the start menu search and hit Enter. Boot tab, select the xp boot option and click delete. Format the XP drive. Should do it. Reboot to see that it's gone.

Hope this helps.

Gary

 

[disgo55]

Thanks garysgold

 

[gregrocker]

Please post back a screenshot of your full Disk Management drive map, using Snipping Tool in Start Menu, attaching file using paper clip in reply box.

XP will most likely hold the System Active MBR, so in order to remove it you need to recover the MBR into Win7 so it will boot on its own. This is done by booting into the Win7 DVD repair console to run Startup Repair up to 3 separate times with reboots as it will attempt to repair and then rewrite the MBR to Win7,.

If you would like to remove XP and recover the space into Win7, we can give you the exact steps after seeing the screenshot.

 

[disgo55]

Ok thanks 4 replys.i did a format on the winxp drive,using my win7 install disk,then i reinstalled win 7,now it seems the xp drive F is a system partition,& i cant format it.Any ideas.Thanks.

 

[gregrocker]

Sorry you did all of that before posting the screenshot as your C:Win7 System MBR is still on the F drive.

You need mark F and D inactive, then recover MBR into C.

Boot into free Partition Wizard CD, select 1 for screen resolution, rightclick on F>Modify>Set Inactive, OK.

Now rightclick on D>Modify>Set Inactive, OK. Apply all steps.

Make sure Win7 HD is set to boot first in BIOS setup, after DVD drive.

Win7 will not boot now. Boot into Win7 DVD, select Repair My Computer, click through to Recovery Tools list to run Startup Repair up to 3 separate times with reboots, as it will attempt to repair and then write the MBR to C.

 

[disgo55]

gregrocker,i done all that you asked,boots into win7 ok,but still no change to F&D.Any more ideas,thanks

 

[SIW2]

How do you mean , no change to F and D? Did you mark them both Inactive?

 

[gregrocker]

If D and F are not marked Active in Disk Management, then you can format them, or use them as you please.

If either are still marked Active, use steps given above to mark inactive.

 

[disgo55]

gregrocker. As i have said.i used Partition Wizard CD/ i marked drives F & D as Inactive.Drive D will now format using disk management,but this is what i get when i try to format the Frive... (Disk management is telling me that my F:is (Healthy (System,Active.Primary Partition)

 

[Saltgrass]

You probably need to set the Win 7 Hard drive first in the bios. That way it will become the system drive.

After you have done that, do what gregrocker suggests about using the startup repair, or

From the Win7 partition, open an administrative command window and type the following with enter after:

bcdboot C:\Windows /s C:

close the command window.

This will put the Win 7 boot files on the Win 7 partition. Now, since that partition is active, it has the boot files and the drive is first in the bios drive order, it will become the system drive on reboot. Right now you seem to have the F: drive first in the bios.

Do not look at the Disk number in Disk Management, that is just how the SATA connectors are arranged, it is the order in the bios that matters.

 

[gregrocker]

gregrocker. As i have said.i used Partition Wizard CD/ i marked drives F & D as Inactive.Drive D will now format using disk management,but this is what i get when i try to format the Frive... (Disk management is telling me that my F:is (Healthy (System,Active.Primary Partition)

F drive has not been marked inactive; System MBR has not been recovered to Win7 yet.

Make sure Win7 HD is set as first HD to boot in BIOS setup Boot Order, after CD/DVD.

Then boot the Partition Wizard CD, rightclick F>Modify>Set to Inactive, OK, Apply.

Now boot into Win7 DVD Repair console, click through to Recovery tools to run Startup Repair up to 3 separate times to rewrite the MBR to Win7.

 

[disgo55]

gregrocker/Saltgrass.
I think iv solved problem Thanks to you.
Heres what i done/shut down my comp,took out HD`s one at a time. Found that my C Drive was the one,with windows 7 boot menu on/F drive was the win 7 OS.
So i put all but the F:drive back in, then used Partition Wizard CD to set Inactive on all 3 drives,then used the format cmd.i then put F:drive back in, on its own, reused Partition Wizard CD to Repair My Computer 3 times, seems to be ok now,what do you think? heres a screen shot,& thanks again for your help.

 

[gregrocker]

It looks fine.

You mean that you used Win7 DVD (not PW) to recover MBR into Win7 partition, right?

How many times did you have to run Startup Repair?

 

[disgo55]

two times

 

[disgo55]

sorry,yes i did use Windows 7 recover MBR

 

[gregrocker]

The reason I ask is that there is a Recover MBR option on booted Partition Wizard CD. Did you use this?

Or did you boot the Win7 DVD to use Startup Repair?

 

[disgo55]

I used the boot to Windows 7 DVD, to use Startup Repair,doing 2x reboots

 

[disgo55]

only used Partition Wizard CD to Format 3 drives,then (Windows 7 DVD Startup Repair),to bring back MBR on F drive.