boot manager installed windows 7 twice how to delete one?

ok to boot up i need the windows 7 disc in,and then i got two windows 7 to boot off one works and the other is crouppet how do i delete of the windows 7 boot's???

The boot loader for Windows 7 (and for Vista) doesn't use BOOT.INI except for pre-Vista versions of Windows.  It uses something call a data store which resembles the registry.

You can use BCDEDIT to display or modify it. It can be run from a Command Prompt WITH ADMINISTRATOR PRIVILEGES (go to accessories, then command prompt and right click on it, select Run as Administrator and click Yes when it asks if you really want to do this).  

BCDEDIT /enum will display something with at least 3 sections:  one windows boot manager section and one windows boot loader section for each copy of Win 7 (or Vista) on your PC.   Each of the boot loader sections had an identifier at the top.

BCDEDIT /delete ID (where ID is the identifier of the bad copy) will remove the entry from the data store.

If the default in the boot manager section is the one you want to keep, then you are finished.  If the default was the bad version of Win 7, then type BCDEDIT /default ID, where ID is the identifier of the good copy.

You should download the BCDEdit reference manual to make sure I haven't mistyped any commmands in this.

thank you. it works

When I run BCDEDIT i get the information below.

I want to delete the boot into 'earlier version of windows' option and boot straight into Windows 7.

Can someone tell me how I would delete it?

Thanks

Windows Boot Manager

identifier                {bootmgr}

device                    partition = D:

description             Windows Boot Manager

locale                     en-US

inherit                    {global settings}

default                   {current}

displayorder           {ntlldr}

                             {current}

toolsdisplayorder     {memdiag}

timeout                   5

Windows Legacy OS Loader

identifier                {ntlldr}

device                    partition = D:

path                       \ntldr

description              Earlier Version of Windows

Windows Boot Loader

identifier                 {current}

device                     partition=C:

path                        \Windows\system32\winload.exe

description               Windows 7

locale                       en-US

inherit                      {bootloadersettings}

recoveryenabled        Yes

osdevice                    Partition = C

systemroot                 \Windows

nx                             OptIn

Hi Geisha79

you need to edit the boot.ini file

You need to open up the boot.ini file  C:\boot.ini

Heres how

click on start then click on run in the box type c:\boot.ini then press enter

before you proceedany further i urge you to back up the originial boot.ini  you can do this making a copy of the the boot file

A notepad file opens and you will see boot loaders Delete manually that the entyr/s you do not require dont want And and then save the file ......

a typical single boot.ini reference will look similar to this

[boot loader]

timeout=30

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS

[operating systems]

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

 the bold letter indicates the partition number.

If you want to delete the option for some other drive:

for d:\

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" 

for e:\

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" 

for f:\

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" 

You must be careful that you must not delete the option pointing to the working O/S.

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