OS choice at boot

[mike cawley]

I recently reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled winXP
Pro. At every reboot I get a an operating system choice
menu. 2 two choices are both xp. How do i get rid of
this? I have explorer set to display all files, hidden or
not, but I can't find boot.ini. Does XP use this?

 

[Nicholas]

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 work for you, then:

Right-click MY COMPUTER and select:

Properties > Advanced > Startup and Recovery Settings > Edit

CAREFULLY edit your boot.ini file to remove the SECOND entry.
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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Nicholas

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| I recently reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled winXP
| Pro. At every reboot I get a an operating system choice
| menu. 2 two choices are both xp. How do i get rid of
| this? I have explorer set to display all files, hidden or
| not, but I can't find boot.ini. Does XP use this?