Question about removing dual boot

[Charlie]

I have a laptop that had XP Professional installed. I reinstalled XP Home
and deleted all partitions and did a quick NTFS format on the hard drive
before the install. When I boot up now it shows both Home and Professional
operating systems and ask which one I want to boot to. It won't boot to
Professional because it isn't there. It boots to Home fine. My question is
how do I stop it from asking which OS to boot to? Is there something I need
to change or delete?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Go to Start > Run and type: MSCONFIG , and hit enter.
Click on the BOOT.INI tab and then click on "Check All Boot Paths"
to delete invalid boot paths.

If the above does not work for you, then:

Right-click MY COMPUTER and select:

Properties > Advanced > Startup and Recovery Settings > Edit

CAREFULLY edit your boot.ini file to remove the SECOND entry.
Your boot.ini file should then look similar to this:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect

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| I have a laptop that had XP Professional installed. I reinstalled XP Home
| and deleted all partitions and did a quick NTFS format on the hard drive
| before the install. When I boot up now it shows both Home and Professional
| operating systems and ask which one I want to boot to. It won't boot to
| Professional because it isn't there. It boots to Home fine. My question is
| how do I stop it from asking which OS to boot to? Is there something I need
| to change or delete?

 

[Michael Stevens]

I have a laptop that had XP Professional installed. I reinstalled XP
Home and deleted all partitions and did a quick NTFS format on the
hard drive before the install. When I boot up now it shows both Home
and Professional operating systems and ask which one I want to boot
to. It won't boot to Professional because it isn't there. It boots to
Home fine. My question is how do I stop it from asking which OS to
boot to? Is there something I need to change or delete?

Click on the links below, or copy and paste the links into the address box
if using the web based newsgroup.
Edit boot menu #22
http://michaelstevenstech.com/xpfaq.html#22
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[Charlie]

THANKS everyone. It fixed my problem.

 

[John Barnett MVP]

Well to begin with you should click the Start button and then click Run. In
the Run dialogue box type 'msconfig' (without the quotes). The system
configuration utility will then appear. Now click the Boot.Ini tab and clcik
the Check all boot paths. The boot path for the 'deleted' windows xp
professional operating system should then be deleted and the boot menu
should disappear on reboot.
Alternatively you could edit the boot ini file and remove the entry for the
windows xp professional operating system. You can find out how to edit the
boot ini file by visiting my web site:
http://freespace.virgin.net/john.freelanceit/index.htm
Click on the Win XP Faq button and take a look at question 76

 

[Ken Blake]

In

I have a laptop that had XP Professional installed. I
reinstalled XP
Home and deleted all partitions and did a quick NTFS format on
the
hard drive before the install. When I boot up now it shows both
Home
and Professional operating systems and ask which one I want to
boot
to. It won't boot to Professional because it isn't there. It
boots to
Home fine. My question is how do I stop it from asking which OS
to
boot to? Is there something I need to change or delete?

Go to Start | Run and run MSCONFIG. On the Boot.ini tab, click
"Check All Boot Paths."