Delete multiple boot windows xp

Using Bootrec. Start-up Repair found one remaining problem: No valid boot sector on the new primary hard disk. At this point, Start-up Repair seemed to become confused; it attempted further repairs, then reported several problems as unfixable, and said to contact Microsoft Support!

Nevertheless, I tried re-booting from my "new" Windows 7 installation several times, all of them unsuccessful. At first, my system found "No Bootable Operating System", but after several more attempts at repairs using Bootrec.

At this point, I gave up and removed my new primary hard disk with my unbootable "new" Windows 7 installation still on it, and reinstalled the original primary hard disk containing my Windows XP OEM installation. Fortunately, this still works; I can boot into Windows XP Pro normally once again, and after re-enabling my secondary hard disk in the system BIOS, I can still boot into Windows 7 from the Boot Menu as well, so I'm now back where I started with a fully-functioning dual-boot system.

Good thing I decided to preserve my original Windows XP primary drive, rather than reformatting it and attempting to re-utilize it for Windows 7! Kiran, could you please critique what I've done so far? I have several questions about this procedure myself. One concern is whether the pre-formatted primary partition on my new hard drive was in fact a valid system partition based on some of the error messages I got from Start-up Repair, etc.

On reflection, I probably should have deleted it and created a new, primary partition, formatted it as NTFS, and made it "Active", using DiskPart, right? Is there something else I should use? I don't see any kind of a disk copy function listed in DiskPart's inventory of commands. I also have Windows 7 Inside Out - Deluxe Edition, from Microsoft Press, as a helpful reference, particularly for helping me understand the Windows 7 vs.

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Replies 1 Views 1K. Feb 9, terzaerian. You can edit boot. Note if you installed XP on the same partition using then mostlikely you overwrote the installation file, so you wont be able to delete the windows folder.

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Other Operating Systems. Random Discussion. Otherwise, if the removal of the OS is your goal, then click edit. Check that your default line points to XP, as it does above. Please note that the entire line of code to be removed may be more than one line in Notepad. Save the file. If everything looks correct, you can delete the folder associated with the OS that you wish to delete.