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2010/03/07 10:38:33 (permalink)

Vista lingering

Good morning,
I did a clean install of Win 7 over Vista and the opening screen still gives the option to open Vista. If I click on Vista it opens Win 7 but wondering what I did wrong.
My "C" drive is like 700 GB but if I go to "Computer" it shows "WinVista (C)" with 279 GB and "Data (D)" with 409 GB.
Can I get rid of the opening screen (asking which OS to load) and get my C drive to show up as a C drive instead of C and D?
I must have done something stupid on the installation right?
Thanks,
Randy
 

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    johnnyV
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    Re:Vista lingering 2010/03/07 11:47:14 (permalink)
    Have no experience with W7  but I just installed XP over Vista on a laptop, and I had to delete the partitions, There was 4, I only kept the recovery partition in case owner wants to return to Vista. Try re-installing and pay attention to partition structure, sounds more like you have installed in parallel or something. Make sure you format C

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    Re:Vista lingering 2010/03/07 14:10:28 (permalink)
    If you only have one hard drive, that means that you install win 7 in a new partition. If you don't want to have 2 partitions and / or 2 OS..you should install Win 7 again and delete all the partitions so you can install from fresh ( all gone for good ). It's not that complicated..you can do it yourself.

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    Re:Vista lingering 2010/03/07 14:39:35 (permalink)
    Sounds like you are both suggesting I would need to do a fresh install and wipe out everything (programs, settings etc)...right?

    Thanks guys,
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    Re:Vista lingering 2010/03/07 16:29:07 (permalink)
    you can delete the vista files (well most of them) and edit your INI bootfile (caution required)

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    Re:Vista lingering 2010/03/07 16:33:00 (permalink)
    jcschild


    you can delete the vista files (well most of them) and edit your INI bootfile (caution required)
    Any chance you'd want to elaboarate on that Scott...I know just enough to be dangerous when it comes to computers
    Thanks,
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    Re:Vista lingering 2010/03/08 00:52:46 (permalink)
    If your installation had inadvertently gone to a dual boot setup, presumably Vista would start when you chose Vista in your boot sequence. But you say when you choose Vista, you start Win 7, so it looks like your BCD still lists Vista but does not point to a usable Vista installation. If it is just a messed up BCD, you could edit that and get rid of the annoying choice at startup.
    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709667(WS.10).aspx
    If that looks waaaay too complicated....
    http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1

    Do you still have a Vista installation (the usable vista files in a dual boot configuration, or the backup made during installation) on your hard drive?
    It is may be too late to revert to Vista and re-install Win 7 from a restored Vista system.
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971762

    Or you could back up everything (best to make a disk image before you do anything in a comples problem like this), format your drive to a single partition and re-install Win 7 using all the default choices, but you will not have a Vista installation to upgrade from so you will lose all your programs and settings, and will not be able use an upgrade version disk without a kludge, and may have to phone the nice people at Microsoft and explain why you are installing the same copy of Win 7 to activate the new installation.

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    Re:Vista lingering 2010/03/08 10:00:58 (permalink)
    Thanks Slart, I was able to delete the "data" partition and then extend the "WinVista" partition to where it uses the whole drive...which was my main concern.
    When I shut down and boot later I don't get the option (which OS to boot) anymore but for some reason when I just re-start I do.
    Not a biggie, I usually do a clean install every few months anyway to get rid of all the crap I've accumulated.
     Thanks very much to everyone!
    Randy

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