Can I remove PART of the the BOOT.INI - XP Home

[Stephen]

Hi

After having problems installing XP Home I have
4 operating systems on my hard drive.

The OS that is working OK is WINDOWS.2

I have read on this group that you can delete
the OS that you don't want from the BOOT.INI
(found in System & Recovery).

My question;

If you look at the boot.ini 'below' you will see that
the original OS named just WINDOWS has a .dll at the end

i.e. HAL=halaacpi.dll

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition" /fastdetect /HAL=halaacpi.dll

If I remove this line - in fact if I remove every line except WINDOWS.2
will I screw my system up - or will it still work OK?

[boot loader]
timeout=0
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS.2
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS.2="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS.1="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS.0="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition" /fastdetect /HAL=halaacpi.dll


Many thanks in advance - Stephen

 

[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 incorrect boot paths.

If the above does not correct the issue, then:

Right-click on MY COMPUTER and select:

Properties > Advanced > Startup and Recovery Settings > Edit

CAREFULLY edit your boot.ini file.
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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Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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| Hi
|
| After having problems installing XP Home I have
| 4 operating systems on my hard drive.
|
| The OS that is working OK is WINDOWS.2
|
| I have read on this group that you can delete
| the OS that you don't want from the BOOT.INI
| (found in System & Recovery).
|
| My question;
|
| If you look at the boot.ini 'below' you will see that
| the original OS named just WINDOWS has a .dll at the end
|
| i.e. HAL=halaacpi.dll
|
| multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
| Edition" /fastdetect /HAL=halaacpi.dll
|
| If I remove this line - in fact if I remove every line except WINDOWS.2
| will I screw my system up - or will it still work OK?
|
| [boot loader]
| timeout=0
| default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS.2
| [operating systems]
| multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS.2="Microsoft Windows XP Home
| Edition" /fastdetect
| multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS.1="Microsoft Windows XP Home
| Edition" /fastdetect
| multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS.0="Microsoft Windows XP Home
| Edition" /fastdetect
| multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
| Edition" /fastdetect /HAL=halaacpi.dll
|
|
| Many thanks in advance - Stephen
|
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