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Removing 2nd xp boot from boot.ini

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defyfate

Discussion Starter · Dec 29, 2006

I had bought several hard drives as is, hoping one of them would work. thought I had one, but turned out I couldn't install XP onto the disk, wouldn't copy any files. so I pretty much cut my loss on the drives and removed it the bad one from pc. now I get 2 options when booting windows. my original xp install, and the 2nd install that still needs to complete, how can I stop it from wanting to install xp again from the boot file and keep the original settings as they were?

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Frank4d

· #2 · Dec 29, 2006

Boot.ini is a (usually hidden and read only) text format file in C:\. You can edit it using Notepad.

But I would feel more comfortable telling you how to edit it if you post a copy of it's contents here, along with information about the partition and physical drive your good XP installation is on (since if boot.ini is edited incorrectly, your PC won't boot at all).

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Frank4d

· #7 · Dec 29, 2006

You need to do that, and also edit the line for default boot device:

[Boot Loader]
Timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[Operating Systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Media Center Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

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