Put the Vista DVD in the drive and open a cod prompt as administrator.
run: X:\boot\bootsect /nt52 c: /Force Where X is the driveletter from yor
DVD drive.

You will get error hence the /force in the cmd because the bootsector is in
use, after a reboot you will be back to the XP boot only.

Ko.

"Dan" <none********.com> schreef in bericht
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>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
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