vista xp dual boot issue

Hello Everyone,
This is really quite stupid of me. I obtained a beta version of Vista and implimented a dual boot with my XP Pro Service Pack 2. I seemed to have let my Vista beta version run out and now have the Vista boot screen whenever my computer starts but Vista is no longer there. How can I revert my boot screen back to my original XP boot screen containing only Windows XP and yes 98SE? I should mention I have already wiped the partition that contained Vista and cannot locate BCEDIT.EXE on my system. DOH! When the VISTA boot screen appears it gives me this error cannot find \Windows\sys32\winload.exe, gone I assume from wiping the VISTA partition. I select legacy systems and find the boot screen that I want in boot.ini. Any suggestions or solutions? Can I edit the boot.ini to save myself? Kind of leary about that one as I am not sure if the partition number has changed or not since VISTA is now gone.

Try this... hope it helps :o) http://www.pro-networks.org/vistabootpro/index.php
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--: Original message follows :-- "treidie" wrote in message

Hello Everyone,
This is really quite stupid of me. I obtained a beta version of Vista and implimented a dual boot with my XP Pro Service Pack 2. I seemed to have let my Vista beta version run out and now have the Vista boot screen whenever my computer starts but Vista is no longer there. How can I revert my boot screen back to my original XP boot screen containing only Windows XP and yes 98SE? I should mention I have already wiped the partition that contained Vista and cannot locate BCEDIT.EXE on my system. DOH! When the VISTA boot screen appears it gives me this error cannot find \Windows\sys32\winload.exe, gone I assume from wiping the VISTA partition. I select legacy systems and find the boot screen that I want in boot.ini. Any suggestions or solutions? Can I edit the boot.ini to save myself? Kind of leary about that one as I am not sure if the partition number has changed or not since VISTA is now gone.

The information is not clear to me. Can you boot into XP or not? Is the entry for Windows XP available under the legacy systems menu? Have you tried booting from the XP disk and boot into the Recovery Console and use the fixmbr command? -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"treidie" wrote in message

Hello Everyone,
This is really quite stupid of me. I obtained a beta version of Vista and implimented a dual boot with my XP Pro Service Pack 2. I seemed to have let my Vista beta version run out and now have the Vista boot screen whenever my computer starts but Vista is no longer there. How can I revert my boot screen back to my original XP boot screen containing only Windows XP and yes 98SE? I should mention I have already wiped the partition that contained Vista and cannot locate BCEDIT.EXE on my system. DOH! When the VISTA boot screen appears it gives me this error cannot find \Windows\sys32\winload.exe, gone I assume from wiping the VISTA partition. I select legacy systems and find the boot screen that I want in boot.ini. Any suggestions or solutions? Can I edit the boot.ini to save myself? Kind of leary about that one as I am not sure if the partition number has changed or not since VISTA is now gone.

I noticed you only started recommending this when I started recommending it, but its not the answer to everyones problem Echo. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Zack Whittaker" wrote in message

Try this... hope it helps :o) http://www.pro-networks.org/vistabootpro/index.php
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "treidie" wrote in message Hello Everyone,
This is really quite stupid of me. I obtained a beta version of Vista and implimented a dual boot with my XP Pro Service Pack 2. I seemed to have let my Vista beta version run out and now have the Vista boot screen whenever my computer starts but Vista is no longer there. How can I revert my boot screen back to my original XP boot screen containing only Windows XP and yes 98SE? I should mention I have already wiped the partition that contained Vista and cannot locate BCEDIT.EXE on my system. DOH! When the VISTA boot screen appears it gives me this error cannot find \Windows\sys32\winload.exe, gone I assume from wiping the VISTA partition. I select legacy systems and find the boot screen that I want in boot.ini. Any suggestions or solutions? Can I edit the boot.ini to save myself? Kind of leary about that one as I am not sure if the partition number has changed or not since VISTA is now gone.

Andre, his concerns are abundantly clear -- maybe more experience will help.
"treidie," you have 2 choices (as I've run into a similar dilemma of unable-to-boot-XP)...
SOLUTION #1 "USING VISTA INSTALLER DISC/RECOVERY CONSOLE"
a) In BIOS, verify that CD-ROM is the first device booted b) Using the Vista installer CD/DVD, insert it; reboot c) When it prompts to load from CD, press any key d) When Vista's installer is loaded (you can "install"), select the "recovery" text-link at the bottom-left part of the screen e) After it loads the drivers, you can ignore any prompts to get to the menu options f) Select the COMMAND PROMPT choice (not sure the labeling), and there you can run BCDEdit.exe commands g) For help, run "BCDEdit.exe /?" ... or simply type "bcdedit.exe /enum" to see what's there. h) Chances are you'll want to run the following command: "bcdedit.exe /set Default = {ntldr}" (sans quotes) i) If you wish to modify the entries, review step "g" above for other detailed options (including reverting to the standard NTLoader boot loader instead of the Vista BCD)
SOLUTION #2 "USING AN XP-FORMATTED BOOT DISK"
a) In BIOS, verify that Floppy is the first device booted b) Using an XP-formatted boot disk, make sure "bcdedit.exe" is there (Zack's tool recommendation includes a copy in its installed folder) c) Reboot, and when you can load from the floppy, run commands from Solution #1 (step "g").
P.S.: I just wrote this; they are not taken from anywhere else on the Internet. If they exist, oh well.
- naseru
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message

The information is not clear to me. Can you boot into XP or not? Is the entry for Windows XP available under the legacy systems menu? Have you tried booting from the XP disk and boot into the Recovery Console and use the fixmbr command? -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"treidie" wrote in message Hello Everyone,
This is really quite stupid of me. I obtained a beta version of Vista and implimented a dual boot with my XP Pro Service Pack 2. I seemed to have let my Vista beta version run out and now have the Vista boot screen whenever my computer starts but Vista is no longer there. How can I revert my boot screen back to my original XP boot screen containing only Windows XP and yes 98SE? I should mention I have already wiped the partition that contained Vista and cannot locate BCEDIT.EXE on my system. DOH! When the VISTA boot screen appears it gives me this error cannot find \Windows\sys32\winload.exe, gone I assume from wiping the VISTA partition. I select legacy systems and find the boot screen that I want in boot.ini. Any suggestions or solutions? Can I edit the boot.ini to save myself? Kind of leary about that one as I am not sure if the partition number has changed or not since VISTA is now gone.

Edit out the line in Boot .ini
-- Daphne
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"treidie" wrote in message

Hello Everyone,
This is really quite stupid of me. I obtained a beta version of Vista and implimented a dual boot with my XP Pro Service Pack 2. I seemed to have let my Vista beta version run out and now have the Vista boot screen whenever my computer starts but Vista is no longer there. How can I revert my boot screen back to my original XP boot screen containing only Windows XP and yes 98SE? I should mention I have already wiped the partition that contained Vista and cannot locate BCEDIT.EXE on my system. DOH! When the VISTA boot screen appears it gives me this error cannot find \Windows\sys32\winload.exe, gone I assume from wiping the VISTA partition. I select legacy systems and find the boot screen that I want in boot.ini. Any suggestions or solutions? Can I edit the boot.ini to save myself? Kind of leary about that one as I am not sure if the partition number has changed or not since VISTA is now gone.

Ha!! You wish - but actually no - I started using it when Patrick posted about it... http://www.msblog.org/?p=631
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message

I noticed you only started recommending this when I started recommending it, but its not the answer to everyones problem Echo. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Zack Whittaker" wrote in message Try this... hope it helps :o) http://www.pro-networks.org/vistabootpro/index.php
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "treidie" wrote in message Hello Everyone,
This is really quite stupid of me. I obtained a beta version of Vista and implimented a dual boot with my XP Pro Service Pack 2. I seemed to have let my Vista beta version run out and now have the Vista boot screen whenever my computer starts but Vista is no longer there. How can I revert my boot screen back to my original XP boot screen containing only Windows XP and yes 98SE? I should mention I have already wiped the partition that contained Vista and cannot locate BCEDIT.EXE on my system. DOH! When the VISTA boot screen appears it gives me this error cannot find \Windows\sys32\winload.exe, gone I assume from wiping the VISTA partition. I select legacy systems and find the boot screen that I want in boot.ini. Any suggestions or solutions? Can I edit the boot.ini to save myself? Kind of leary about that one as I am not sure if the partition number has changed or not since VISTA is now gone.