Is there any way to get rid of the boot menu that asks which OS I want to boot to in Windows 7?

[techs]

I installed windows 7 on a new hard drive, and still have XP on the other hard drive. I like to use the boot menu option in the bios to choose which drive (and therefore which OS) to boot to.
Yet Windows7 boot manager comes up when I choose the XP drive and I have to choose Previous operating system to boot to the xp.

How can I get rid of that and just boot to XP automatically on the XP drive?

Thanks.

 

[dawks]

I'm not sure about Windows 7, but previous versions of Windows have a file called boot.ini. (back this file up before changing it). You could simply pull the entry for the WinXP install and be golden.

 

[Dahak]

unfortunatley its not the same for vista/win 7 but you can use a utility called easybcd which will allow you to do it. or you can do it manually using bcdedit

*edit*
didn't fully read the original post.

by the sound if it, it created a dual boot so all the boot information is on the xp partition and it created all the win7 boot data on that drive.

you would have to repair the xp boot info and win7 boot info separately to allow you to select the hard drive from the bios drive selection'

 

[NetGuySC]

Right click "my computer" go to properties then "advanced" then "startup and recovery" see if that helps..

 

[techs]

Originally posted by: Dahak
unfortunatley its not the same for vista/win 7 but you can use a utility called easybcd which will allow you to do it. or you can do it manually using bcdedit

*edit*
didn't fully read the original post.

by the sound if it, it created a dual boot so all the boot information is on the xp partition and it created all the win7 boot data on that drive.

you would have to repair the xp boot info and win7 boot info separately to allow you to select the hard drive from the bios drive selection'

Yeah, that's what seems to have happened.
The guy who recommended easybcd, I tried it, but like Dahak says, it is probably the XP drive that has been modified, so I will go to that drive and check out the boot.ini.
Thanks all.

 

[techs]

Ok, here's the Windows XP boot.ini:


;
;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=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


hmmm. it looks like the start up screen is not loading from the XP boot.ini, so it must be from some other change that Win7 made on the XP drive?
Agree?

 

[corkyg]

So it would seem. I prefer a hardware solution to the scenario. I have Win 7 on one drive and Vista on another. They are each in SATA mobile racks, and I select which one I want by a key switch before booting. Neither one knows about the other, and BIOS is not involved either.

EZ

 

[techs]

Originally posted by: corkyg
So it would seem. I prefer a hardware solution to the scenario. I have Win 7 on one drive and Vista on another. They are each in SATA mobile racks, and I select which one I want by a key switch before booting. Neither one knows about the other, and BIOS is not involved either.

EZ

I see what you mean. I have tons of paralell type racks, but I don't have any sata racks, though if I can't fix this problem any other way.....

 

[techs]

I had some time today and found the solution.
I booted off my WinXP disk and typed fixmbr
That fixed it.

Interestingly, I did a Windows 7 install on another computer with the same setup and Windows 7 did not modify the mbr on the WinXP hard drive.
Different mobo's maybe?