Install went bad Installing and Upgrading Vista Discuss Install went bad in the Windows Vista forums; I burnt the dvd iso for beta 2 and ran the install and chose to do a clean install to my d drive which has no OS. however after it ...

[97TunedMustang]

I burnt the dvd iso for beta 2 and ran the install and chose to do a clean install to my d drive which has no OS. however after it tried to continue install at some point it had some major error and tried to roll back what had been done. come to find out it looks like it tried to install all these system files to my C drive not D drive! so i let it do its thing suposedly suposed to remove all the crap it installed which it did not. there was 3gigs worth of install stuff on the c drive not where it should be. i deleted all that and tried a system restore and yet the stupid boot manager keeps coming up lookin for the other OS and i have to continue and go choose "earlier version of windows" option. how do i get rid of this boot manager. i was reading vista doesnt use boot.ini which would explain why there was nothing to remove from there. thats just great and this bcdedit program doesnt run either yet the loader continues to pop up after every restart. sorry bout being long winded but yea thats the problem. would someone please give me some insight here. im lost. thanks a lot.

[Gawain]

Welcome Mustang, sounds like you've had a real nightmare scenario there. At least you've managed to keep your XP installation without losing files

Microsoft have indeed removed Boot.ini in the latest beta version of Vista - there official statement reads:

"Windows Vista introduces a new boot loader architecture; a new firmware-independent boot configuration and storage system called Boot Configuration Data (BCD); and a new boot option editing tool, BCDEdit (BCDEdit.exe). These components are designed to load Windows more quickly and more securely.

The traditional Windows NT boot loader, Ntldr, is replaced by Windows Boot Manager (Bootmgr.exe) and a set of system-specific boot loaders. In the new configuration, Windows Boot Manager is generic and unaware of the specific requirements for each operating system, and each system-specific boot loader is optimized for the system that it loads."

Hopefully if you take a look at either BCDEdit.exe or Bootmgr.exe you'll find something that will help you edit the boot option menu. (If you've not already removed these files)

Remember to report back on how you did it if you manage to get it working....