How to remove dual boot startup screen

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Adrian Boliston

I recently brought a laptop with XP Home preloaded, but as I had a retail CD of XP
pro I thought I'd boot from that CD and run setup which includes a full reformat.
I now have XP pro up and running, but I get an annoying "dual boot" screen giving
a choice of XP pro and XP home! How can I get rid of this dual boot screen as XP
Home no longer exists?
 
I recently brought a laptop with XP Home preloaded, but as I had a retail CD of XP
pro I thought I'd boot from that CD and run setup which includes a full reformat.
I now have XP pro up and running, but I get an annoying "dual boot" screen giving
a choice of XP pro and XP home! How can I get rid of this dual boot screen as XP
Home no longer exists?
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I've never had to do this with XP but I expect the dual boot menu is
stored in the mbr so I would expect if you boot to the XP cdrom's
recovery console and type "fixmbr" without the quotes it will
overwrite the mbr and delete the dual boot menu. That's how you get
rid of the boot menu with Linux anyway, just overwrite the mbr.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
 
Adrian said:
I recently brought a laptop with XP Home preloaded, but as I had a
retail CD of XP pro I thought I'd boot from that CD and run setup
which includes a full reformat. I now have XP pro up and running, but
I get an annoying "dual boot" screen giving
a choice of XP pro and XP home! How can I get rid of this dual boot
screen as XP Home no longer exists?
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Start>Run>msconfig [enter]

Look on the boot.ini screen and click the button to fix boot paths.

Malke
 
Open the boot.ini file on the C:\ drive with notepad. Remove the lines
associated with Windows XP Home. Save file. You're done.
 
You're wrong. (but no harm will come of it if someone does those steps). As
mentioned by others, modifying boot.ini is all that is needed. The easiest
way is Malke's.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
Malke said:
Adrian said:
I recently brought a laptop with XP Home preloaded, but as I had a
retail CD of XP pro I thought I'd boot from that CD and run setup
which includes a full reformat. I now have XP pro up and running, but
I get an annoying "dual boot" screen giving
a choice of XP pro and XP home! How can I get rid of this dual boot
screen as XP Home no longer exists?
Click to expand...

Start>Run>msconfig [enter]

Look on the boot.ini screen and click the button to fix boot paths.
Click to expand...

Thanks this seems to have sorted it - there was a button labelled "check
paths" and it detected that the xp home path was not valid and deleted it
automatically.
 
I recently brought a laptop with XP Home preloaded, but as I
had a retail CD of XP
pro I thought I'd boot from that CD and run setup which
includes a full reformat.
I now have XP pro up and running, but I get an annoying "dual
boot" screen giving
a choice of XP pro and XP home! How can I get rid of this
dual boot screen as XP
Home no longer exists?
Click to expand...

This question has been answered so any times, did you actualy bother
to search?

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=site:windowsforumz.com+++remove+"dual+boot"&btnG=Search&meta=
 
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