Hi all, I was intending to dual boot my XP with my older win 2000, anyway i messed things up a bit and now i just want to run XP only.

My problem is that when i startup my pc it still shows the 2 OS's to choose from, i have formatted the win 2000 partition but still the 2 options remain, i just want it to boot normally again, but i don't know how to get rid of that win 2000 option.

any help is very much appreciated.

Make sure you can see your hidden system files...

Boot into XP and...

Start > Control Panel > Folder Options > View [tab]

Click the button (its a radio button) next to Show hidden files and folders

Untick the box next to Hide Protected Operating System Files

Now go onto the root of your C drive (or the drive Windows is installed to)

Open the file boot.ini

You should see a section called [operating systems]

NOW, BE VERY VERY CAREFUL!

Just to make sure in notepad, click format at the top and make sure wordwrap

is turned OFF.

You should have 2 lines under [operating systems] - one will say

"Windows XP Professional" and one will say "Windows 2000 Professional"

Remove the line (only the LINE) with Windows 2000 Professional on it.

I have to warn you, if you delete the wrong line your system will not boot!

Close the boot.ini file, saving the changes.

If you have XP Professional it would be something like this but

don't copy this code...

[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

Edited August 27, 200619 yr by LeveL

Thanks for your reply but its still doing the same thing, i deleted the win 2000 line but nothing has changed.

Here is what it looks like now -

***************************** BOOT.INI *****************************

[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 Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

**************************** END PREPEND ***************************

Is there something i have left there, that shouldn't be still there ?

thanks for your help.

heres how i would make it so the boot loader doesnt come up.

Click start ---> right click on my computer ---> properties ---> advanced tab ---> 3rd settings button (at the bottom) ---> set "time to display list of operating systems" to 0.

that should make it automatically boot without showing the loader.

hope this helps

heres how i would make it so the boot loader doesnt come up.

Click start ---> right click on my computer ---> properties ---> advanced tab ---> 3rd settings button (at the bottom) ---> set "time to display list of operating systems" to 0.

that should make it automatically boot without showing the loader.

hope this helps

That done the trick, thankyou very much.

your very welcome, im glad it worked

regards, cygnus

Edited August 27, 200619 yr by Cygnus

I usually just use the command-line to do this... The "bootcfg" command (executable) will do just fine. No unhiding or changing the permissions on anything. Pure command-line. You can easily create a batch file to delete all entries except for the default one. This is what I would do when creating Multi-Boot CDs using Gosh's method!