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"Dan" wrote:

| I have a 2 hdd system with 3 OS's:
|
| 1) XP on C:\, the 1st partition of SATA hdd 1. This was the 1st OS installed
| on the newly build machine. This is the partition which has the "boot"
| directory containing the BCD files.
| 2) Vista on J:\, partition one of my 2nd SATA drive. The 2nd OS installed on
| the machine.
| 3) Vista on F:\, partition 3 of SATA drive 1 (this installation was an
| error, I meant to replace the Vista J:\, but it installed a fresh copy here
| instead).
|
| I want to remove Vista entirely. I have tried running fixmbr followed by
| fixboot from the repair console, directing it to C:\. Also tried running
| them in the opposite order (fixboot followed by fixmbr). In both cases, the
| Vista boot menu still appears as it did before I ran these repairs. I am
| afraid to wipe the Vista partitions under these circumstances, for fear of
| not being able to boot into XP. How can I restore boot.ini & XP as the sole
| OS?
|
| Thanks
|
| Dan