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I want to delete an entry from my winpe boot menu (see attached screen video) but when i deleted the bootpackage.wim file it still stayed as a record in my boot menu.

 

I know i could completely erase and start with a new but i want to keep my previous .wim files without the other options clogging my menu.

 

http://screencast.com/t/1kqyBude

Vista boot manager reads boot menu from BCD. So you have to modify the "bcd" file.

 

You can use Vista's bcdedit.exe utility (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709667.aspx). Command-line for deleting an entry is "bcdedit.exe /store bcd /delete ID" (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc721886.aspx).

 

BCD is also just a registry hive. So you could mount it using regedit.exe, and then find and delete appropriate entry (but I don't remember the path for it inside the BCD file off the top of my head).

 

Hope this helps.

Thanks, you put me on the right track. I found a utility that gives me a GUI instead of command line.

 

http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1

 

Glad I could help.

 

I looked at the EasyBCD utility that you posted a link to. Unfortunately, I don't think it will help, because it looks like EasyBCD can only be used to modify active bootloader. In other words, you have to run it on a Vista installation. (There is a way to run it on XP, but that involves actually replacing XP bootloader with Vista's, so that's not the way to go).

 

You will need a utility that can open a BCD file. The mentioned methods of using bcdedit.exe or regedit are the ones I know of. If you can find another utility that can edit a BCD file, then it would be good to know as well.

no it worked great!

This issue has been driving me crazy.  I took a little messing around but I got rid of the extra entries.

thanks a bunch.

Mark