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I have two hard disks--80 gig and 160 gig. The 80 gig was/is the boot disk. I
recently reformatted the 80 gig drive and reinstalled Win XP Home from an OEM
system disk.
Everything went well--except that in the process I wind up with a dual boot
system, with Win XP Home on both drives. The good stuff is all on the 80 gig
drive (C Drive) with a lot of slop, including apparently a complete
installation of Win XP Home on the 160 gig drive, drive D.
As it stands now, when the dual boot message comes up, I can either hit
enter or let the time run out and the computer boots to the C drive, which is
what I want.
It is my understanding that to get rid of the dual boot, you have to edit
the boot.ini file. When I run msconfig and click on the boot ini tab, I find
my boot.ini file says the following:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS
[operating systems]
muti(0)disk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition"/fastdetect/NoExecute=OptIn
muti(0)disk(1)partition(1)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition"/fastdetect
If I click on "Check all boot paths" I get a message that says "It appears
that all BOOT.INI lines for Microsoft operating systems are OK."
What changes should I make to the boot.ini file to boot only to the C drive?
Can I edit it in the msconfig boot.ini window?
How much of a probability is there that I will mess this whole thing up
badly and lose my sox?
Thanks. Gordon Nelson
recently reformatted the 80 gig drive and reinstalled Win XP Home from an OEM
system disk.
Everything went well--except that in the process I wind up with a dual boot
system, with Win XP Home on both drives. The good stuff is all on the 80 gig
drive (C Drive) with a lot of slop, including apparently a complete
installation of Win XP Home on the 160 gig drive, drive D.
As it stands now, when the dual boot message comes up, I can either hit
enter or let the time run out and the computer boots to the C drive, which is
what I want.
It is my understanding that to get rid of the dual boot, you have to edit
the boot.ini file. When I run msconfig and click on the boot ini tab, I find
my boot.ini file says the following:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS
[operating systems]
muti(0)disk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition"/fastdetect/NoExecute=OptIn
muti(0)disk(1)partition(1)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition"/fastdetect
If I click on "Check all boot paths" I get a message that says "It appears
that all BOOT.INI lines for Microsoft operating systems are OK."
What changes should I make to the boot.ini file to boot only to the C drive?
Can I edit it in the msconfig boot.ini window?
How much of a probability is there that I will mess this whole thing up
badly and lose my sox?
Thanks. Gordon Nelson