Boot.ini on the XP partition "refers" to the boot manager when Vista is
selected via the dual boot menu..
If not familiar with BCDedit consider a third party boot utility such a
VistaBootPro to provide for booting ditectly into Vista,


"Jawade" <Henk_Jawade@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.22536e9f47ba3cd3989841@news.microsoft.com ...
> In article <14v431r4i3ctq.dlg@myhost7.org>, Kris <a@b.net> says...
>> On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:15:11 +0100, Jawade wrote:
>>
>> > In article <17322sp97e1bo.dlg@myhost7.org>, Kris <a@b.net> says...
>> >> I ran XP, I installed Vista to the next partition, I want to eliminate
>> >> XP,
>> >> but the Vista boot MANAGER is on the XP partition. I tried hiding the
>> >> XP
>> >> partition, booting the Vista CD and doing a repair (twice) but when it
>> >> boots, it tells me NTLDR is missing.
>> >
>> > Put the bootfiles from Vista at the Vista-partition and set the
>> > bootindicator in the MBR at the Vista-partition.
>>
>> how?
>
> With a diskeditor you can set the bootindicator at the Vista-partition.
> The location for the first partition is 0x01BE and for the second
> 0x01CE, active is the value 0x80.
>
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