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hi, ive got dual boot up screen on my netbook which i dont want, i intially installed vista onto seperate partition to see how it would run but now ive decided i wanna keep xp, so i deleted the partition with vista.
but now each time i boot it gives me choice of vista or earleir version of windows.. if i dont keep an eye on it it boots to vista which isnt there so then gives me another screen.

how can i get rid of the boot screen so it jsut boots back to xp without thinking of *** to do?

thanks ali
 
Control panel > system > advanced > start up and recovery > choose your default operatin system, once you've logged into xp.

You can also change the time it takes to choose.
 
ok forgive me!!

which or what do i change?
this is what it says in edit start up:


;Warning: Boot.ini is used on Windows XP and earlier operating systems.
;Warning: Use BCDEDIT.exe to modify Windows Vista boot options.
;
[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT
 
Use LeJosh's suggestion, its easier :) Can tell it to never display the Vista option and boot straight to XP
 
its still doing it:(
default is "xp home"
time to display i set to 0 seconds
time to display recovery i set to 0 seconds

but yet when i restart it still shows vista or xp and counts down from 30 seconds
 
You have completely formatted the Vista partition? Shouldn't be recognising there is another OS there if the files aren't there?Plus it still shouldn't be doing :confused: :(

have you used the run command to open up that BCDEDIT.exe file?
 
You have completely formatted the Vista partition? Shouldn't be recognising there is another OS there if the files aren't there?Plus it still shouldn't be doing :confused: :(

have you used the run command to open up that BCDEDIT.exe file?

tried BCDEDIT.exe and it comes up with "windows cant find"

the partiton is now fully formated and joined back with the rest of the hdd
but yet i restart and still the menu there:(
why is life never simple !!!!
 
Set the time to display to 5 seconds, 0 might be unavailable. I'm kind of lost aswell, just have to try trial and error now. :( Or Uncheck the box that says the seconds (unless you did that before)
 
I'm pretty sure I used to have this but I managed to fix it some time ago, now my boot.ini looks like this:

Code:
[boot loader]
timeout=1
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" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

Here might be some useful info for you too:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289022
 
ok got a little problem now
cant actually boot into anything now, played with boot ini (saved first) then copied ini from another pc running windows home but now neither vista boots of course cos its not there and now neither does xp, just tells me some stuff about check hard disk setup
 
You can't change the boot options from XP because it's still using the Vista bootloader. You need to rewrite the boot record to tell it to boot straight into XP.

Boot off your XP CD and choose to run the recovery console. When it's loaded up, type fixmbr and press enter, then type fixboot and press enter, then restart.
 
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