two OS options during startup

M

Matty

I upgraded from WinXP Home SP2 to WinXP Pro SP2.

Now, when I turn on my compu, I get a black screen first asking me:

Please select the OS to start:
MS windows XP Pro
MS windows XP Home

Is that normal when you upgrade from Home to Pro?
I thought that when I upgraded, that everything would be almost seamless -
i.e., that my compu will know that I have Pro, and not Home and so should
not be asking me which OS to start with.

The MS Win XP Home option is useless anyway since the boot.ini has a
"noexecute" entry for it.
I thought I actually got two OS after upgrading to Pro (because of the
startup message) but even when XP Home is selected, XP Pro gets loaded
anyway.
 
J

John John

Use the MSCONFIG tool and have it check for and remove invalid entries
in the boot.ini file. I think that you are being misled as to the
purpose of the noexecute entry, it is not for what you may be thinking.
If you are certain that other than the name of the operating system
the two lines in the boot.ini file are identical, or that XP Pro starts
with its line, you can safely delete the line pointing to XP Home.

John
 
M

Matty

Boot.ini says:

[bootloader]
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
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /usepmtimer

Do I delete the second OS line or leave it as it is?
 
J

John John

As suspected, both of the lines have the same ARC path and both point to
the same location: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS

Remove the second line, the boot.ini file will look like this:

[bootloader]
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

The boot.ini file is "Read-Only". To save the file after you do the
changes you will have to remove the Read-Only flag, after you are done
put the Read-Only flag back on, right-click the file and select
properties to change the flag.

John

Boot.ini says:

[bootloader]
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
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /usepmtimer

Do I delete the second OS line or leave it as it is?


Use the MSCONFIG tool and have it check for and remove invalid entries in
the boot.ini file. I think that you are being misled as to the purpose of
the noexecute entry, it is not for what you may be thinking. If you are
certain that other than the name of the operating system the two lines in
the boot.ini file are identical, or that XP Pro starts with its line, you
can safely delete the line pointing to XP Home.

John

Matty wrote:
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M

Matty

Done.
Thank you!


John John said:
As suspected, both of the lines have the same ARC path and both point to
the same location: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS

Remove the second line, the boot.ini file will look like this:

[bootloader]
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

The boot.ini file is "Read-Only". To save the file after you do the
changes you will have to remove the Read-Only flag, after you are done put
the Read-Only flag back on, right-click the file and select properties to
change the flag.

John

Boot.ini says:

[bootloader]
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
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /usepmtimer

Do I delete the second OS line or leave it as it is?


Use the MSCONFIG tool and have it check for and remove invalid entries in
the boot.ini file. I think that you are being misled as to the purpose
of the noexecute entry, it is not for what you may be thinking. If you
are certain that other than the name of the operating system the two
lines in the boot.ini file are identical, or that XP Pro starts with its
line, you can safely delete the line pointing to XP Home.

John

Matty wrote:


I upgraded from WinXP Home SP2 to WinXP Pro SP2.

Now, when I turn on my compu, I get a black screen first asking me:

Please select the OS to start:
MS windows XP Pro
MS windows XP Home

Is that normal when you upgrade from Home to Pro?
I thought that when I upgraded, that everything would be almost
seamless - i.e., that my compu will know that I have Pro, and not Home
and so should not be asking me which OS to start with.

The MS Win XP Home option is useless anyway since the boot.ini has a
"noexecute" entry for it.
I thought I actually got two OS after upgrading to Pro (because of the
startup message) but even when XP Home is selected, XP Pro gets loaded
anyway.
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
J

John John

You're welcome.

John
Done.
Thank you!


As suspected, both of the lines have the same ARC path and both point to
the same location: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS

Remove the second line, the boot.ini file will look like this:

[bootloader]
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

The boot.ini file is "Read-Only". To save the file after you do the
changes you will have to remove the Read-Only flag, after you are done put
the Read-Only flag back on, right-click the file and select properties to
change the flag.

John


Matty wrote:

Boot.ini says:

[bootloader]
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
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /usepmtimer

Do I delete the second OS line or leave it as it is?




Use the MSCONFIG tool and have it check for and remove invalid entries in
the boot.ini file. I think that you are being misled as to the purpose
of the noexecute entry, it is not for what you may be thinking. If you
are certain that other than the name of the operating system the two
lines in the boot.ini file are identical, or that XP Pro starts with its
line, you can safely delete the line pointing to XP Home.

John

Matty wrote:



I upgraded from WinXP Home SP2 to WinXP Pro SP2.

Now, when I turn on my compu, I get a black screen first asking me:

Please select the OS to start:
MS windows XP Pro
MS windows XP Home

Is that normal when you upgrade from Home to Pro?
I thought that when I upgraded, that everything would be almost
seamless - i.e., that my compu will know that I have Pro, and not Home
and so should not be asking me which OS to start with.

The MS Win XP Home option is useless anyway since the boot.ini has a
"noexecute" entry for it.
I thought I actually got two OS after upgrading to Pro (because of the
startup message) but even when XP Home is selected, XP Pro gets loaded
anyway.
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