Guest Casey Posted September 27, 2008 Posted September 27, 2008 When booting XP is listed twice as boot option. I would like to remove 1. How do I do this without wiping out harddisk and reinstalling? Thanks in advance for any help.
Guest nass Posted September 27, 2008 Posted September 27, 2008 RE: XP Rmoval "Casey" wrote: > When booting XP is listed twice as boot option. I would like to remove 1. How > do I do this without wiping out harddisk and reinstalling? Thanks in advance > for any help. How to edit the Boot.ini: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289022 [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professioanl" /fastdetect multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect Do you select the first line when boot up or second line of the operating system? If you select first option/line then try to remove this: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect Save the file and Reboot your machine, does it help? HTH, nass --- http://www.nasstec.co.uk
Guest Terry R. Posted September 27, 2008 Posted September 27, 2008 Re: XP Rmoval The date and time was 9/27/2008 12:39 PM, and on a whim, Casey pounded out on the keyboard: > When booting XP is listed twice as boot option. I would like to remove 1. How > do I do this without wiping out harddisk and reinstalling? Thanks in advance > for any help. Hi Casey, Right click on My Computer and select Properties, Advanced Tab, Settings button under Startup and Recovery. Click the Edit button under System startup. You will have something similar to this: [boot loader] timeout=3 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(8)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional (#1)" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn Don't look at my numbers in parenthesis, as they won't match yours. Look at the "default" line. That is what Windows is booting into after the timed delay. Remove the line that states (#1) if it's not listed in the default line. Note that there are two lines showing above but that's because it wrapped into two lines in this post: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(8)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional (#1)" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn Save the file and when you reboot, the second option should be gone. -- Terry R. ***Reply Note*** Anti-spam measures are included in my email address. Delete NOSPAM from the email address after clicking Reply.
Guest Xandros Posted September 27, 2008 Posted September 27, 2008 Re: XP Rmoval right click My computer and select Properties. Go to the Advanced Tab. Click the Settings button under the Startup and Recovery Section. Click the Edit button which will open Notepad and delete the duplicate entries. Then save and close Notepad i.e. I have XP Pro installed and the entry looks like the following. XP Home should look essentially the same just substituting Home for Professional. [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect -- Xandros "Casey" <Casey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:10779BE1-EF18-4704-A3FE-5B4CD5C70E7D@microsoft.com... > When booting XP is listed twice as boot option. I would like to remove 1. > How > do I do this without wiping out harddisk and reinstalling? Thanks in > advance > for any help.
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted September 27, 2008 Posted September 27, 2008 Re: XP Removal Re: XP Removal "Casey" <Casey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:10779BE1-EF18-4704-A3FE-5B4CD5C70E7D@microsoft.com... > When booting XP is listed twice as boot option. I would like to remove 1. > How > do I do this without wiping out harddisk and reinstalling? Thanks in > advance > for any help. I suspect you don't want to remove Windows XP, in spite of your subject line, but only one of the XP boot menu items. Unhide the hidden file "c:\boot.ini", then use notepad.exe to open it. You can now remove the offending menu item. Make sure you remove the correct line!
Guest Bob I Posted September 29, 2008 Posted September 29, 2008 Re: XP Rmoval Go to Start, Run, put in MSCONFIG.EXE, Ok On the BOOT.INI tab click "Check All Boot Paths" Casey wrote: > When booting XP is listed twice as boot option. I would like to remove 1. How > do I do this without wiping out harddisk and reinstalling? Thanks in advance > for any help.
Guest JD Posted October 22, 2008 Posted October 22, 2008 Re: XP Rmoval Thank you Bob I! Your tip worked like a charm! Awesome! "Bob I" wrote: > Go to Start, Run, put in MSCONFIG.EXE, Ok > > On the BOOT.INI tab click "Check All Boot Paths" > > > Casey wrote: > > > When booting XP is listed twice as boot option. I would like to remove 1. How > > do I do this without wiping out harddisk and reinstalling? Thanks in advance > > for any help. > >
Guest Bob I Posted October 22, 2008 Posted October 22, 2008 Re: XP Rmoval You're welcome, and you have a great day! JD wrote: > Thank you Bob I! Your tip worked like a charm! Awesome! > > "Bob I" wrote: > > >>Go to Start, Run, put in MSCONFIG.EXE, Ok >> >>On the BOOT.INI tab click "Check All Boot Paths" >> >> >>Casey wrote: >> >> >>>When booting XP is listed twice as boot option. I would like to remove 1. How >>>do I do this without wiping out harddisk and reinstalling? Thanks in advance >>>for any help. >> >>
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