Can't get rid of OS Boot screen!

[datamestonic]

I had a second HD in this computer and installed windows XP on it, then moved it to another motherboard. The problem is, now every time I start up my computer I get a screen asking which Windows XP installation I want to boot up, even though the second HD isn't there anymore. I did some searching online and found out how to mess with the boot.ini file to get rid of the option to start the second installation, so I did, but now I still get that screen, and whenever it chooses "Windows Default" (a new option that showed up) the system crashes and it says that it couldn't start up.

I still have the choice to start up my proper WinXP installation but I want it to automatically choose that and skip this screen all together. Anybody know how to do it?

Thank you for your time.

 

[JohnG86]

You need to edit boot.ini located in the root of your primary hard drive like C:\boot.ini. Just delete the line referencing the second hard drive.

What boot.ini looks like with Windows XP Pro installed alone:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
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

 

[datamestonic]

Originally posted by: JohnG86
You need to edit boot.ini located in the root of your primary hard drive like C:\boot.ini. Just delete the line referencing the second hard drive.

What boot.ini looks like with Windows XP Pro installed alone:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
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

Perfectly restored...

Thank you very much good sir.