Two Windows Choices Upon Boot

[Guest]

A couple of times, I've received a preconfigured laptop with XP SP2 that I
have to format because of company policy. After performing a clean install of
XP and the system finally boots into the OS, I restart. Upon restart after
the 'Dell boot screen' comes and goes, two "Windows XP Professional" choices
appear. The system counts down from 30 seconds and boots to the first
"Windows XP Professional" option by default. It's acting as if its dual
booting but I only install one OS on one partition. It boots into the OS
normally but the choices are a bother. In the past I've tweaked the boot.ini
file and deleted on of the WinXP Pro entries, but ended up hosing the
computer and it no longer booted...not even into Safe Mode. For visual
effect, I've also tweaked the 30 second count into zero or 1 second. But this
is still annoying each time I build a PCs OS from scratch and somehow I feel
that there should only be one entry of "Windows XP Professional" appearing.
Just to let you know, when performing a clean install of XP, I'm choosing to
delete the partition and create a new one. Then I install the OS onto the
'one' partition. What am I doing wrong? I've built the OS on primary hard
drives that are partitioned and on primary hard drives that are
not-partitioned. But end up with the same results! Does anyone know why the
two "Windows XP Professional" titles appear after boot?

 

[Roberto]

A couple of times, I've received a preconfigured laptop with XP SP2 that I
have to format because of company policy. After performing a clean install
of
XP and the system finally boots into the OS, I restart. Upon restart after
the 'Dell boot screen' comes and goes, two "Windows XP Professional"
choices
appear. The system counts down from 30 seconds and boots to the first
"Windows XP Professional" option by default. It's acting as if its dual
booting but I only install one OS on one partition. It boots into the OS
normally but the choices are a bother. In the past I've tweaked the
boot.ini
file and deleted on of the WinXP Pro entries, but ended up hosing the
computer and it no longer booted...not even into Safe Mode. For visual
effect, I've also tweaked the 30 second count into zero or 1 second. But
this
is still annoying each time I build a PCs OS from scratch and somehow I
feel
that there should only be one entry of "Windows XP Professional"
appearing.
Just to let you know, when performing a clean install of XP, I'm choosing
to
delete the partition and create a new one. Then I install the OS onto the
'one' partition. What am I doing wrong? I've built the OS on primary hard
drives that are partitioned and on primary hard drives that are
not-partitioned. But end up with the same results! Does anyone know why
the
two "Windows XP Professional" titles appear after boot?

Run msconfig open boot.ini tab |check all boot paths, this should
safetly remove the invalid entry

rgds
Roberto