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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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davehc

· #3 · Dec 29, 2006

Go to the Control panel/System/Advanced. Select the last option (Start up).
At the top you will see a text line. This is your boot.ini. If you open it you can select the wanted line from there, as your default. If you then change the time to 0 secs, you will not be troubled with the choice menu again. You can also edit the boot.ini with notepad or wordpad. (it's in the root) Be careful that you know which line you are really not needing! I would suggest you make a copy of the boot.ini before attempting this simple procedure. Your final Boot.ini should read something like this, assuming XP is on your C. Drive.

[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="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

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