Les5 Posted August 27, 2006 Share Posted August 27, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeveL Posted August 27, 2006 Share Posted August 27, 2006 (edited) 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 foldersUntick the box next to Hide Protected Operating System FilesNow go onto the root of your C drive (or the drive Windows is installed to)Open the file boot.iniYou 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 wordwrapis 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=30default=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, 2006 by LeveL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les5 Posted August 27, 2006 Author Share Posted August 27, 2006 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=30default=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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prx984 Posted August 27, 2006 Share Posted August 27, 2006 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les5 Posted August 27, 2006 Author Share Posted August 27, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prx984 Posted August 27, 2006 Share Posted August 27, 2006 (edited) your very welcome, im glad it worked regards, cygnus Edited August 27, 2006 by Cygnus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamehead200 Posted August 28, 2006 Share Posted August 28, 2006 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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