PC deciding to display dual boot - Help

Hawkpie · 9 Feb 2007 at 13:19

Afternoon

Rebuilt my PC last night to put XP on it, something I have done lots of times before, but getting a weird problem.

Ran the set up and removed all partitions, created a new one, formatted the drive and installed XP.

When I boot now I get a message like:

Please choose which OS you would like to run:
Windows XP Professional
Windows XP Professional

If I click the top one, the PC boots no probs. Choosing the second one and I get a failure straight away, as it cant find anything.

No idea what I have done different this time to get this choice.

Anyway, is there any way that I can remove this choice screen and make it always choose option 1.

Thanks

UKDTweak · 9 Feb 2007 at 13:21

Just edit your boot.ini file, remove the line for the incorrect windows.
Make sure you back it up first though

Hawkpie · 9 Feb 2007 at 13:24

nice one thanks.

if it does balls up, is there an easy way to put the boot.ini file back? or will windows no longer boot?

CoXeY · 9 Feb 2007 at 14:27

Do the following:

control panel > system > advanced tab > startup and recovery settings > untick the "time to display list of operating systems" option.

Dan.

A[L]C · 9 Feb 2007 at 14:29

or msconfig -> boot.ini -> check all boot paths

Hawkpie · 9 Feb 2007 at 15:20

thanks guys, will give it a whirl tonight.

Hawkpie · 10 Feb 2007 at 20:15

A[L]C said:
or msconfig -> boot.ini -> check all boot paths

cheers A[L]C. tried yours first and it removed it automatically for me.

thanks for the replies everyone, all sorted now. :cool: