XP Pro boot up ?Anyone??

[cookj]

I had two operating systems on two seperate hard drives.I did away with one,and when I restart the computer it still want me to choose which one to go to.How can I get it to stop giving me the choice and just boot up?I was going to do a search,but it`s about time for some sleep Thanks in advance

Jackie

 

[cookj]

Anyone??

 

[galtsfan]

Can you be a little more specific?...Did you use a third praty boot manager?...What operating systems?

 

[cookj]

I was having problems with XP,and I got a deal on a hard drive,I put ME in first,but it was getting agrivating(i`m used to xp)so I put XP corp. on it .I finally figured out my problems in my legit XP and deleted the corp. version on the other hard drive.I re-partitioned and formated the hard drive,just going to use it for storage now,but I still get the screen at the beginning to choose which XP Professional to boot to.

 

[galtsfan]

I'm not sure if you'll find the answer in the disk management utility, but I thats where I'd start...

 

[cookj]

I`ll give it a look...thanks

 

[kursplat]

will there still be a boot.ini file? i would think so. just need to edit it i would think
good luck

 

[crisp82]

Search your Hard Drive for Boot.ini. There will be 2 entries listed under operating system. They will read along the lines of 'fast detect Microsoft Windows XP Pro/corp', delete the entry for the removed os.

Good Luck

Chris

 

[nihil]

Do exactly like everyone else said. Just remove the unwanted os from your boot.ini file.

 

[crisp82]

It worked for me.

 

[cookj]

Thanks!That fixed it