Unwanted choice on booting. TIA

[sandy58]

I had WindowsXP Home on the wrong partition (after a repair attempt) &
after returning it to C:
I now have the choice of two (WindowsXP Home) on bootup. I have since
deleted "windows" on my partition E: but still have the unwanted
choice. Any help gratefully accepted. TIA

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I had WindowsXP Home on the wrong partition (after a repair attempt) &
after returning it to C:
I now have the choice of two (WindowsXP Home) on bootup. I have since
deleted "windows" on my partition E: but still have the unwanted
choice. Any help gratefully accepted. TIA

Here is how you can modify your choices:

Control Panel / System / Advanced / Startup and Recovery / Edit

 

[sandy58]

Here is how you can modify your choices:

Control Panel / System / Advanced / Startup and Recovery / Edit

Thanks for prompt reply, Pegasus (MVP) but my "recovery" is not
working. ???

 

[Gary S. Terhune]

Click on the Edit button. You'll see two lines that look more or less like this:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

Determine which is which by comparing disk and partition numbers. Delete the line for the OS that no longer exists.

 

[Bob I]

Start, Run, MSCONFIG, BOOT.INI, Check all boot paths.

 

[sandy58]

Thanks for prompt reply, Pegasus (MVP) but my "recovery" is not
working. ???

Thank you all very much, gentlemen. I deleted the unwanted line and
the job is done.
Great help.

 

[Gary S. Terhune]

You're welcome.