I installed Windows Vista on one of my drives leaving Windows XP unchanged and untouched on my default C drive. After playing around a little in Windows Vista it revealed on me that most of my hardware drivers and some softwares were not compatible with Vista so I decided to switch back.
I formatted the drive containing Windows Vista but the problem is that whenever the computer restarted it showed the dual-boot option for Vista and for Windows XP even though I had deleted Windows Vista. After a little research I came over a solution that helps you fix the dual boot issue for a clean Vista uninstall.
The reason for this problem is that Vista no longer uses boot.ini to store boot information like for Windows XP and previous OS versions. There are two very easy solutions to fix the dual boot issue.
You can use any one of them to fix your problem. However I must clarify that Solution 2 has been personally tested by me and works 100%. Before preceding with any of these solutions remember to Format the drive where Windows Vista has been installed previously in order to make this process clean and fully working.
Use Recovery Console
This is the most reliable and fast solution for this issue provided that you have a WindowsXP Home or Professional CD or DVD.
Just change you BIOS settings to boot from CD\DVD-ROM drive and boot from your Windows XP CD. Now, you would see screen as below, Choose the “Recovery Console” option by presing ‘R’ key. Now here is what you have to do.
1. Select the drive number where Windows XP is inatlled (”1″ in most cases)
2. Enter your administrator password (if asked)
3. Now type FIXMBR and press Y to confirm your action
4. Now Type FIXBOOT and press Y to confirm again
No comments:
Post a Comment