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Hey everyone, i was wondering if any of you could help me.
I recently have decided to sell my copy of Windows Vista Ultimate edition on Ebay and i have reformatted the Vista hard drive using XPs Disk Manager. (Yes i have XP and Vista on Dual Boot).
Now the hard drive is completely wiped but on Windows Boot Manager it still seems to be detecting the Vista partition.
I did remove the partition before formatting so i dont know whats going on.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Boot with your XP disc, go to the recovery console and type fixmbr.
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Damn...hasnt worked, it still showing the vista partition on the Boot Manager.
Try using the fixboot command, also from the recovery console. Make sure you have anything important backed-up first.
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If charleski's suggestions haven't sorted it, try having a look at msconfig (type msconfig from run on the start menu) and the boot.ini tab. I think hitting the check all boot paths button should sort out the boot menu and clear the Vista entry.
The fixboot did the trick, thanks alot for the help :)