How do I remove the dual boot choice at startup?

C

CMD

I am running XP. I have removed Win7 from a separate drive, but I still have
the dual boot choice.

How can I remove this choice and boot directly into XP?
 
J

John John - MVP

CMD wrote"
I am running XP. I have removed Win7 from a separate drive, but I still have
the dual boot choice.

How can I remove this choice and boot directly into XP?
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Click Start>Run>type "msconfig" - select "boot.ini" tab - check
"Check all boot paths".
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That won't work, the computer is using the Windows 7 bootloader. The OP
could use the EasyBCD utility as suggested by Jerry or he could use the
Windows 7 Bootsect.exe utility to return the boot process to the Windows
XP ntldr boot manager:

x:\Boot\Bootsect.exe –NT52 All


where 'x' is the drive letter of the Windows 7 media. It's explained here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/919529
(See "Removing Windows Vista from a dual-boot configuration" toward the
end of the article)

John
 

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