Alright, so I have minor issue, as some of you may remember, my XP install got fucked some time back, well I managed to fix it. However I did not fix it without starting another XP installation. I thought this would go away after powering down my computer but it wrote something to hard drive and I would like to remove it.
On my boot menu it gives me the option of "XP Installation process", if you go into this, it just errors out. Normally I wouldn't care but for whatever reason, its defaulting to this on boot, so I can't do what I normally do and just turn on my computer and walk away. I already checked the boot manager in vista and vista is selected as 'default', so something is over-riding it.
Any help/suggestions would be appreciated
Throw computer through window.
(12-06-2008, 11:26 AM)CaffeinePowered link Wrote: [ -> ]Alright, so I have minor issue, as some of you may remember, my XP install got fucked some time back, well I managed to fix it. However I did not fix it without starting another XP installation. I thought this would go away after powering down my computer but it wrote something to hard drive and I would like to remove it.
On my boot menu it gives me the option of "XP Installation process", if you go into this, it just errors out. Normally I wouldn't care but for whatever reason, its defaulting to this on boot, so I can't do what I normally do and just turn on my computer and walk away. I already checked the boot manager in vista and vista is selected as 'default', so something is over-riding it.
Any help/suggestions would be appreciated
Back up data, delete + reinstall.
edit c:\boot.ini
Remove unneeded entries.
(12-06-2008, 04:16 PM)HeK link Wrote: [ -> ]edit c:\boot.ini
Remove unneeded entries.
listen to him
(12-06-2008, 04:16 PM)HeK link Wrote: [ -> ]edit c:\boot.ini
Remove unneeded entries.
Vista does not have boot.ini
Hence my problem, the place most google searches are pointing me to isn't helping
Edit: Ran the manager, and it did not show the XP installation process :|
(12-06-2008, 05:59 PM)CaffeinePowered link Wrote: [ -> ]Vista does not have boot.ini
Hence my problem
Yes, Vista is your problem.
Try booting off the CD and reinstalling the MBR.
In XP it is FixMBR, for Vista follow this:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392
yup
hek's got you covered
Vista doesn't have any sort of proper autoexec boot thingy?
Managed to fix it, had to edit boot.ini in XP, everything's back to normal
So there was infact, a boot.ini?
You must have been using the XP bootloader in that case.
(12-07-2008, 11:35 PM)HeK link Wrote: [ -> ]So there was infact, a boot.ini?
You must have been using the XP bootloader in that case.
Yes and no, it seems like vista works this way...
Computer boots, detects vista and XP, Vista's boot sector gets priority, so it loads its boot manager. Which then grabs the boot.ini for any information on XP. When I attempted that XP re-install it only wrote to XP's boot sector, so Vista's was clean, but XP's needed to be cleaned.
The thing that threw me for a loop was that Vista writes a comment line into XP's boot.ini that basically says 'don't edit this shit in XP, do it through the vista boot management program'. So I go there and the entry for the XP install isn't there, but regular XP is. If I had figured that out in the first place I probably wouldn't have posted this thread.