Re: removal of vista boot manager (please help)

philo wrote:
> "Steven Wabik" <Stevenw45@verizon.net> wrote in message
> news:%23%23NTS$tLIHA.4228@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> i just hope someone can help me with this **** issue.
>>
>> i just previously had a dualboot setup between Windows XP tablet PC
> edition
>> 2005 and Windows Vista business edition.
>>
>> the thing was that i got sick of vista so i decided to get rid of it. i
>> thoght i removed the boot manager first with vistabootpro v3.3. but it
> seems
>> that the removal of the vistaloader failed.
>>
>> i used vistabootpro to remove the vista bootloader in the past from when i
>> did beta testing. when i beta tested vista i was doing it in a dual oot
>> situation and that application vistaboot pro got rid of the vista
>> bootloader.
>>
>> now i seem to be stuck with the vistaboot loader. does anyone have any
> ideas
>> of how to get rid of it without reinstalling windows?
>>
>>
>
>
> Did you try booting from your XP cd and from the repair console issuing the
> command : fixboot
>
>
I did this with a fixboot when dual-booting a Win and Linux box. It did
not work. I had to run the command fixmbr from the repair console.

The rest remains the same.