Remooving Windows DualBoot

OMG!!! i just got my AAO and i wanted to try and put vista on it... All went according to plan until. i tried to re-boot and go into xp that didn't work it went straight into vista. i fixed that problem and now i want vista gone vista is uninstalled but i still get the windows boot manager screen saying:

Windows Vista
Older Version of Windows.

i really want this gone please help!!

 

As a Linux guy I am not too familiar with Windows, but with any luck there is a file called boot.ini in your XP root directory (C:\ for example). Take a loot at it. It contains the entries that you choose from during boot. With less luck, this file is situated in your Vista root, meaning that your boot loader is replaced by one that points directly to Vista right now. In that case, you will have to "repair" windows XP before you can remove Vista.

 

All you have to do is boot up Windows XP (Earlier version of Windows as it would say on the boot menu), go to start menu » Run and type in %HOMEDRIVE%\boot.ini
A notepad document will pop up and then you will have to delete the line where it says everything about Vista. Everything is going to be in one line. Save changes and done!

 

thanks for your help i fixed it !!

but now i have the vista partiton that is 50gb of my 160gb. and it wont let me merge them back to gether so i just have an unallocated 50gb partition please help

 

I don't think that there is a way of putting partitions together but you can format it and use it as a data partition. Well, that's what I do. I have 30 GB Vista partition, 10 GB Linux Partition and 80 GB Data partition. I keep the data on different partition because if I have to reinstall an OS, I only format the OS partition, so the data still is there. No backing up or anything.

 

ok thanks for the answers i have fixed the problem now

 

your a diamond m8, just sorted my similar problem, thanks

 

You can merge partitions together using tools such as partition magic... etc. A search on the internet will give you tonnes of results.

 

thanks anyway its all fixed now i decided to use that partition for ubuntu

 

If you have ububtu already, why didn't you use the built in partition tool called qparted?

 

beacuse i just got ubuntu in the last week and the original post was a while ago