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    installed Windows 7...how to remove beta version from startup?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Dan_555, Oct 23, 2009.

  1. Dan_555

    Dan_555 Notebook Guru

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    Hi everyone,

    I purchased and installed Windows 7 Professional (64 bit) yesterday on my HP DV9000. This laptop has dual hard drives, in the past I had Vista installed on the primary hard drive OS (C :) and Windows 7 beta set up for dual boot in a separate partition of my Data (D :) drive. I downloaded Windows 7 yesterday as a .exe installer (must have missed the option to download it as an iso file, I would have preferred to create a bootable CD) and in preparation for the install I backed up all my files to my external hard drive (I wanted a clean install) and deleted the Windows 7 beta partition through disk management. I chose a custom install on my OS hard drive and let everything finish. The first thing I did was delete all the files that were placed in the Windows (old) folder as I already had all my files in my external drive and everything seemed to be working perfectly fine. However I just noticed that on startup I still have the two OS options, both called Windows 7 :confused: Apparently the beta version somehow still appears as an option on startup even though I deleted that partition...how do I remove the beta version from my startup options?

    Thanks!

    Dan
     
  2. Pitabred

    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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  3. graycolor

    graycolor Notebook Evangelist

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    You can just install easy BCD here http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1

    Just delete the other windows 7 make sure its the correct one. Be careful deleting the wrong one may mean a reinstall of windows 7.