boot manager installed windows 7 twice how to delete one?

Anonymous
2009-05-30T07:55:27+00:00

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???

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Anonymous
2009-10-06T23:14:07+00:00

The easiest way to remove an entry in the Windows 7 Boot Configuration is to use msconfig. 

To launch msconfig:

1.  Click Start

2.  In the Search text box, type msconfig

3.  Launch msconfig by selecting it from the search results above the search text box.

After msconfig is launched:

1.  Go to the Boot tab

2.  Select the boot entry you want to delete.

3.  Click the Delete button and then click OK.

Make sure to be logged in to the Windows 7 partition you want to keep when performing these steps so you don't delete the good installation by mistake.

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-09-25T20:06:29+00:00

    Thanks, Tony.  

    Worked perfectly.

    And there's no doubt which is the active partition when you're in msconfig.

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-10-14T15:48:30+00:00

    The solution of Tony-Support Engineer didn't helped me because my old XP wasn't in this list. Only my Windows 7 which i wanted to keep.

    Your sollution worked great for me Goopi. Thx a lott!!

    but in my case i had to use this to delete my old windows bootdata:

         BCDEDIT /delete ID /f

    (where ID is the identifier of the bad copy which in my case is: {ftldr} )

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-04-10T23:31:43+00:00

    Use this: bcdedit /f /delete {ntldr}

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  4. Anonymous
    2009-05-30T08:06:49+00:00

    now how could that happen......

    When you are booted into the OS, and go to My Computer, how many partitions, i.e., Harddrives, are there?

    Did you remove the Windows7 DVD from your DVD drive after installation and put the BIOS back to the option to boot ONLY from HDD?

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