Removing dual booting

[krwell]

Hey guys I was dual booting between XP and ME. I formatted the partion ME was on but now I still get the menu to select an Operating system at start up. How do I get rid of it? Thanks in advance

 

[sohcrates]

well, one way is to edit your boot.ini file to make XP the default OS and set the timeout to 0 seconds...that way you effectively don't have a boot menu

as far as completely getting rid of it, i'm not too sure

 

[MidiGuy]

Would completely removing the line for the ME partition from the boot.ini file work?

 

[krwell]

problem is in XP there is no boot.ini, and the old boot.ini from ME was deleted in the formatting.

 

[sohcrates]

<< problem is in XP there is no boot.ini, and the old boot.ini from ME was deleted in the formatting. >>



are you sure? if you're seeing a boot menu, then most likely boot.ini still exists

uncheck "hide protected operating system files" and see if it shows up

 

[krwell]

That did it. I forgot to uncheck that. Thanks

 

[bsobel]

> problem is in XP there is no boot.ini, and the old boot.ini from ME was deleted in the formatting

It should be marked hidden/system in the boot volume (normal c:\). Check it from DOS, exporer hides it quite well since it's 'super hidden' (e.g. both system and hidden)

Bill

 

[Dutchy]

in win xp; goto system, than advance, than start up and recovery than settings than remove the line with win me

 

[Dreadogg]

<< in win xp; goto system, than advance, than start up and recovery than settings than remove the line with win me >>

boot loader]
timeout=999
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" /fastdetect

It should look similiar to that when your done !