setting up problem ?

[Lost Soul]

hi my brother just got a used pc and he wanted it reset and have installed with xp pro, well he asked me to help him because i reset my pc all the time,, well he has a hp pavillion 700 and as we got into the bios changed the order and then we deleted all partions then installed his os , we formatted the hard drive then installed xp pro, now the problem is, now when ever we turn the pc on he is promted with a os page before loading that asked for what os does he want to run and it gives him more then one choice, it gives him xp home and xp pro

is there a way to fix this so that it only shows xp pro and boots straight to pro ?

right now im scratching my head as to why its doing this and how its doing it, it should only have pro on it, the old drive was completly wiped clean and formatted.

but i have seen some thing strage ,, well i tried to fix this problem so i went to reinstall the xp pro clewanly, and i noticed, where the old partitions were that i deleted it reads, unknown device or some thing

but over all when formatting, the disk formatted his full hard drive,

so wheres this other os comming from ? and how ? why ? and most of all is there a way to correct this ?

[Doggie]

get into the my computer propertys by right clicking it and selecting propertys. i think its in the file system, then settings option and simply remove xp home os line and anything to do with optional boot. i think

[seuter]

Just edit the hidden file c:\boot.ini, delete the XP home line

[Lost Soul]

thanks for the replies guys well ill have to test this all out but it sounds about right, ill test it out sunday, the pc i need to do it on is about an hour away from me but heres a question for yall,, the hard drive was wiped clean by deleting all partions then reformating followed by an instal,, now with them steps why does it show 2 os's.... now that one is gonna puzzle me, ill let you guys know how it turned out after sunday

thanks again