Which OS to boot option on startup

Adam18290 · 23 Mar 2008 at 15:10

Just formatted my sis's laptop and installed XP pro, yet when I go to boot the PC it asks me which OS to boot, and gives me a choice of XP pro and XP home.

Does this mean I also have home installed? Also how can I have it so that it just boots to XP pro cause thats all I want it to do.

Thanks

Adam18290

Nymins · 23 Mar 2008 at 15:20

If you go into msconfig and click the BOOT.INI tab, there should be an option to set a particular OS as the default one. Here is a picture off mine (it may look different to others because i did have Vista on a partition and it kinda went wrong whilst uninstalling

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(option is blanked out cause i only have one OS installed)

By the sounds of it, the reformat didn't go well which is why XP Home is being detected. Did you make sure you click reformat and deleted and recreated any partitions?

Adam18290 · 23 Mar 2008 at 15:31

There are two OS in the list, and by the looks of it the Xp pro is already set as default as it is also greyed out likes yours. However I can set the home edition to default but obviously I dont want to do that.

How about if I change the timeout to 0, so itll just load XP pro immediately?

Adam18290

EDIT - I did reformat the partition, however I didnt delete it if I remember correctly, I just formated the partition and then installed XP Pro onto it. It doesnt matter really? Still got rid of all the old crap I had on the PC b4 so not really fussed.

Nymins · 23 Mar 2008 at 15:38

Adam18290 said:
There are two OS in the list, and by the looks of it the Xp pro is already set as default as it is also greyed out likes yours. However I can set the home edition to default but obviously I dont want to do that.

How about if I change the timeout to 0, so itll just load XP pro immediately?

Adam18290

EDIT - I did reformat the partition, however I didnt delete it if I remember correctly, I just formated the partition and then installed XP Pro onto it. It doesnt matter really? Still got rid of all the old crap I had on the PC b4 so not really fussed.

Putting the timeout to 0 should in theory work. Dont know why Xp Home isn't gone, you could try reformating again and deleted and recreating the partition. But its up to you.

Adam18290 · 23 Mar 2008 at 15:41

Nymins said:
Putting the timeout to 0 should in theory work. Dont know why Xp Home isn't gone, you could try reformating again and deleted and recreating the partition. But its up to you.

If it was my PC id prob format again but its only my sisters and she wont know the difference. No harm in keeping it like it is atm tbh.

Thanks

Adam18290

Adam18290 · 23 Mar 2008 at 15:42

I clicked the button "Check all boot paths" which resulted in the home edition being removed, hopefully that should fix it! will try now