Guest sandy58 Posted August 22, 2007 Posted August 22, 2007 I had WindowsXP Home on the wrong partition (after a repair attempt) & after returning it to C: I now have the choice of two (WindowsXP Home) on bootup. I have since deleted "windows" on my partition E: but still have the unwanted choice. Any help gratefully accepted. TIA
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted August 22, 2007 Posted August 22, 2007 Re: Unwanted choice on booting. TIA "sandy58" <Aleckie59@aol.com> wrote in message news:1187778306.138267.226730@l22g2000prc.googlegroups.com... >I had WindowsXP Home on the wrong partition (after a repair attempt) & > after returning it to C: > I now have the choice of two (WindowsXP Home) on bootup. I have since > deleted "windows" on my partition E: but still have the unwanted > choice. Any help gratefully accepted. TIA > Here is how you can modify your choices: Control Panel / System / Advanced / Startup and Recovery / Edit
Guest sandy58 Posted August 22, 2007 Posted August 22, 2007 Re: Unwanted choice on booting. TIA On Aug 22, 12:33 pm, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I....@fly.com> wrote: > "sandy58" <Alecki...@aol.com> wrote in message > > news:1187778306.138267.226730@l22g2000prc.googlegroups.com... > > >I had WindowsXP Home on the wrong partition (after a repair attempt) & > > after returning it to C: > > I now have the choice of two (WindowsXP Home) on bootup. I have since > > deleted "windows" on my partition E: but still have the unwanted > > choice. Any help gratefully accepted. TIA > > Here is how you can modify your choices: > > Control Panel / System / Advanced / Startup and Recovery / Edit Thanks for prompt reply, Pegasus (MVP) but my "recovery" is not working. ???:-)
Guest Gary S. Terhune Posted August 22, 2007 Posted August 22, 2007 Re: Unwanted choice on booting. TIA Click on the Edit button. You'll see two lines that look more or less like this: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect Determine which is which by comparing disk and partition numbers. Delete the line for the OS that no longer exists. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com "sandy58" <Aleckie59@aol.com> wrote in message news:1187791192.303285.12340@q3g2000prf.googlegroups.com... > On Aug 22, 12:33 pm, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I....@fly.com> wrote: >> "sandy58" <Alecki...@aol.com> wrote in message >> >> news:1187778306.138267.226730@l22g2000prc.googlegroups.com... >> >> >I had WindowsXP Home on the wrong partition (after a repair attempt) & >> > after returning it to C: >> > I now have the choice of two (WindowsXP Home) on bootup. I have since >> > deleted "windows" on my partition E: but still have the unwanted >> > choice. Any help gratefully accepted. TIA >> >> Here is how you can modify your choices: >> >> Control Panel / System / Advanced / Startup and Recovery / Edit > > Thanks for prompt reply, Pegasus (MVP) but my "recovery" is not > working. ???:-) >
Guest Bob I Posted August 22, 2007 Posted August 22, 2007 Re: Unwanted choice on booting. TIA Start, Run, MSCONFIG, BOOT.INI, Check all boot paths. sandy58 wrote: > On Aug 22, 12:33 pm, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I....@fly.com> wrote: > >>"sandy58" <Alecki...@aol.com> wrote in message >> >>news:1187778306.138267.226730@l22g2000prc.googlegroups.com... >> >> >>>I had WindowsXP Home on the wrong partition (after a repair attempt) & >>>after returning it to C: >>>I now have the choice of two (WindowsXP Home) on bootup. I have since >>>deleted "windows" on my partition E: but still have the unwanted >>>choice. Any help gratefully accepted. TIA >> >>Here is how you can modify your choices: >> >>Control Panel / System / Advanced / Startup and Recovery / Edit > > > Thanks for prompt reply, Pegasus (MVP) but my "recovery" is not > working. ???:-) >
Guest sandy58 Posted August 22, 2007 Posted August 22, 2007 Re: Unwanted choice on booting. TIA On Aug 22, 2:59 pm, sandy58 <Alecki...@aol.com> wrote: > On Aug 22, 12:33 pm, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I....@fly.com> wrote: > > > "sandy58" <Alecki...@aol.com> wrote in message > > >news:1187778306.138267.226730@l22g2000prc.googlegroups.com... > > > >I had WindowsXP Home on the wrong partition (after a repair attempt) & > > > after returning it to C: > > > I now have the choice of two (WindowsXP Home) on bootup. I have since > > > deleted "windows" on my partition E: but still have the unwanted > > > choice. Any help gratefully accepted. TIA > > > Here is how you can modify your choices: > > > Control Panel / System / Advanced / Startup and Recovery / Edit > > Thanks for prompt reply, Pegasus (MVP) but my "recovery" is not > working. ???:-) Thank you all very much, gentlemen. I deleted the unwanted line and the job is done. Great help. :-)
Guest Gary S. Terhune Posted August 22, 2007 Posted August 22, 2007 Re: Unwanted choice on booting. TIA You're welcome. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com "sandy58" <Aleckie59@aol.com> wrote in message news:1187818747.771725.245840@i13g2000prf.googlegroups.com... > On Aug 22, 2:59 pm, sandy58 <Alecki...@aol.com> wrote: >> On Aug 22, 12:33 pm, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I....@fly.com> wrote: >> >> > "sandy58" <Alecki...@aol.com> wrote in message >> >> >news:1187778306.138267.226730@l22g2000prc.googlegroups.com... >> >> > >I had WindowsXP Home on the wrong partition (after a repair attempt) & >> > > after returning it to C: >> > > I now have the choice of two (WindowsXP Home) on bootup. I have since >> > > deleted "windows" on my partition E: but still have the unwanted >> > > choice. Any help gratefully accepted. TIA >> >> > Here is how you can modify your choices: >> >> > Control Panel / System / Advanced / Startup and Recovery / Edit >> >> Thanks for prompt reply, Pegasus (MVP) but my "recovery" is not >> working. ???:-) > > Thank you all very much, gentlemen. I deleted the unwanted line and > the job is done. > Great help. :-) >
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