windows XP pro boot problem - fixed

[2cool4u]

I have been having some issues with my one HD so i took it to a friends house nad used the advanced feature on the windows XP install to install on another HD. Well when the computer rebooted there were too boot options, windows XP and windows XP setup. IT went to teh setup and said it was restarting...it did this several times. SO i took MY HD out of the slave and had just my friend's drive in there and when i rebooted hte computer it came up with 2 options to boot...both saying Microsoft Windows XP. One of htem is trying to install XP on MY drive and the other is his XP which works fine. My question is how do i get rid of the option to install XP on MY drive from his bootup? If you don't change it as soon as it pops up you get an error. Any ideas?

 

[brianp34]

this is a fairly easy fix (i think) edit your boot.ini: boot into the xp install that you want to use, then right click on "my computer" go to properties, advanced, startup and recovery settings. then go to edit startup options manuallys. remove the extra entry. i'm running a plain install of xp pro, and my boot.ini looks like this:

[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" /fastdetect

that should give you some idea of what yours should look like. that should remove the extra entry from the bootloader.

 

[2cool4u]

thanks i actually figured it out on my own using a very similar method. There is a little prog in the system32 folder called bootcfg.exe that allows you to change the boot.ini. Thanks alot for the info.