To eliminate dual boot

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I have two hard disks--80 gig and 160 gig. The 80 gig was/is the boot disk. I
recently reformatted the 80 gig drive and reinstalled Win XP Home from an OEM
system disk.

Everything went well--except that in the process I wind up with a dual boot
system, with Win XP Home on both drives. The good stuff is all on the 80 gig
drive (C Drive) with a lot of slop, including apparently a complete
installation of Win XP Home on the 160 gig drive, drive D.

As it stands now, when the dual boot message comes up, I can either hit
enter or let the time run out and the computer boots to the C drive, which is
what I want.

It is my understanding that to get rid of the dual boot, you have to edit
the boot.ini file. When I run msconfig and click on the boot ini tab, I find
my boot.ini file says the following:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS
[operating systems]
muti(0)disk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition"/fastdetect/NoExecute=OptIn
muti(0)disk(1)partition(1)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition"/fastdetect

If I click on "Check all boot paths" I get a message that says "It appears
that all BOOT.INI lines for Microsoft operating systems are OK."

What changes should I make to the boot.ini file to boot only to the C drive?
Can I edit it in the msconfig boot.ini window?
How much of a probability is there that I will mess this whole thing up
badly and lose my sox?

Thanks. Gordon Nelson
 
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george

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Gordon Nelson said:
I have two hard disks--80 gig and 160 gig. The 80 gig was/is the boot disk.
I
recently reformatted the 80 gig drive and reinstalled Win XP Home from an
OEM
system disk.
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you, somehow, haven't reformatted, because you end up with 2 installs.

Everything went well--except that in the process I wind up with a dual
boot
system, with Win XP Home on both drives. The good stuff is all on the 80
gig
drive (C Drive) with a lot of slop, including apparently a complete
installation of Win XP Home on the 160 gig drive, drive D.

As it stands now, when the dual boot message comes up, I can either hit
enter or let the time run out and the computer boots to the C drive, which
is
what I want.

It is my understanding that to get rid of the dual boot, you have to edit
the boot.ini file. When I run msconfig and click on the boot ini tab, I
find
my boot.ini file says the following:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS
[operating systems]
muti(0)disk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition"/fastdetect/NoExecute=OptIn
muti(0)disk(1)partition(1)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition"/fastdetect

If I click on "Check all boot paths" I get a message that says "It appears
that all BOOT.INI lines for Microsoft operating systems are OK."
Click to expand...

correct, because both install are there

What changes should I make to the boot.ini file to boot only to the C
drive?
Can I edit it in the msconfig boot.ini window?
How much of a probability is there that I will mess this whole thing up
badly and lose my sox?
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the first multi-line refers to your install on c: and the second refers to
the install on d:.
so, if you want to get rid of the install on c:, remove the first line.
next you can startup with your new install (on d:) and start removing stuff
from your c-drive.
Note. At the very least leave boot.ini, ntldr, ntdetect.com on the drive,
because they are used upon booting yout OS.
You *can* then also remove (delete) your windows folder and documents and
settings folder and program files folder on the c: drive.

hth

george
 
G

Gordon Nelson

Wes--That did it. Thanks very much.

Wesley Vogel said:
"I have two installations of XP on the same partition........"
http://michaelstevenstech.com/xpfaq.html#20

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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Gordon Nelson said:
I have two hard disks--80 gig and 160 gig. The 80 gig was/is the boot
disk. I recently reformatted the 80 gig drive and reinstalled Win XP
Home from an OEM system disk.

Everything went well--except that in the process I wind up with a
dual boot system, with Win XP Home on both drives. The good stuff is
all on the 80 gig drive (C Drive) with a lot of slop, including
apparently a complete installation of Win XP Home on the 160 gig
drive, drive D.

As it stands now, when the dual boot message comes up, I can either
hit enter or let the time run out and the computer boots to the C
drive, which is what I want.

It is my understanding that to get rid of the dual boot, you have to
edit the boot.ini file. When I run msconfig and click on the boot ini
tab, I find my boot.ini file says the following:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS
[operating systems]
muti(0)disk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition"/fastdetect/NoExecute=OptIn
muti(0)disk(1)partition(1)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition"/fastdetect

If I click on "Check all boot paths" I get a message that says "It
appears that all BOOT.INI lines for Microsoft operating systems are
OK."

What changes should I make to the boot.ini file to boot only to the C
drive? Can I edit it in the msconfig boot.ini window?
How much of a probability is there that I will mess this whole thing
up badly and lose my sox?

Thanks. Gordon Nelson
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
W

Wesley Vogel

Gordon,

Keep having fun! :)

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In
Gordon Nelson said:
Wes--That did it. Thanks very much.

Wesley Vogel said:
"I have two installations of XP on the same partition........"
http://michaelstevenstech.com/xpfaq.html#20

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In
Gordon Nelson said:
I have two hard disks--80 gig and 160 gig. The 80 gig was/is the
boot disk. I recently reformatted the 80 gig drive and reinstalled
Win XP Home from an OEM system disk.

Everything went well--except that in the process I wind up with a
dual boot system, with Win XP Home on both drives. The good stuff is
all on the 80 gig drive (C Drive) with a lot of slop, including
apparently a complete installation of Win XP Home on the 160 gig
drive, drive D.

As it stands now, when the dual boot message comes up, I can either
hit enter or let the time run out and the computer boots to the C
drive, which is what I want.

It is my understanding that to get rid of the dual boot, you have to
edit the boot.ini file. When I run msconfig and click on the boot
ini tab, I find my boot.ini file says the following:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS
[operating systems]
muti(0)disk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition"/fastdetect/NoExecute=OptIn
muti(0)disk(1)partition(1)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition"/fastdetect

If I click on "Check all boot paths" I get a message that says "It
appears that all BOOT.INI lines for Microsoft operating systems are
OK."

What changes should I make to the boot.ini file to boot only to the
C drive? Can I edit it in the msconfig boot.ini window?
How much of a probability is there that I will mess this whole thing
up badly and lose my sox?

Thanks. Gordon Nelson
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