loosing a dual bootup

[Guest]

I have two hardrives. My son installed xp home on the second. The same OS is on the first one.My problem is he has his own puter ans OS, so I want to go back to a single bootup.I don,t want to be asked what OS to use on startup.

 

[Patti MacLeod]

Hi Jim,

You'll need to edit the boot.ini file in order to delete the reference to XP
on the second drive. Right-click on My Computer, select Properties>Advanced
tab and then click on the Settings button in the Startup and Recovery
section. Click on the Edit button besie "To edit the startup options file
manually, click Edit"......this will open boot.ini file in Notepad. It will
probably look something like this:

[boot loader]
timeout = 30
default = multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS = "Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS = "Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect

The "rdisk(1)" references the second hard drive, so remove this
line.......also, ensure that XP on the first disk is the default, as shown.
You can also edit the "timeout=" line to read timeout = 0

Once you have made the appropriate edits, go to File>Save then File>Exit, OK
then OK again.


Regards,