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False dual boot fix?

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Black99transam

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I rencently reloaded Windows xp on my computer now after the POST i recieve a option to boot into 2 xp OS 1 is not real how do i change it so I do not see this false boot option?
 
Edit the boot.ini and remove the bogus entry. Put some unique placemarker inside the quotes (like "XP Home #1" for one line "XP Home #2 for the other) and test to ensure you don't delete the wrong one.
 
Should be C:\boot.ini. It's hidden and read-only, so go to a C:\ prompt and type (without the quotes of course) "attrib -s -h -r c:\boot.ini". Then just edit it with notepad or some other text editor (*TEXT* editor, not wordpad or MS Word, etc). Inside you'll see an Operating Systems section and under that should be 2 lines that start with multi(0)rdisk.... and at the end of the lines is some text in quotations - that text is what you see when you boot.

Add something unique inside of each quotation - like #1 at the end of one line and #2 at the end of the other. Save and exit and verify which one is bogus, then delete the entire line from the boot.ini ("attrib +h +s +r c:\boot.ini" when you're done).

Google "editing the boot.ini" if you need more info.

Good luck.
 
You can also do this.
Start/Run
Type msconfig and hit "OK".
In the window that pops up, go to the "BOOT.INI" tab.
Click on "Check All Boot Paths".
 
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