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lib319
07-11-2007, 07:22 PM
I decided to cancel an upgrade xp install over one of my OS partitons. Now in the boot selection screen I get the choice of Windows 1, Windows 2 and Default which is the xp setup. I changed the default of the boot partitions in XP after canceling the upgrade and also edited the boot.ini script but I still get the 3 selections instead of the 2 windows choices I want.

How do I get Windows to stop looking for the setup routine and just boot into my Windows 1 partition?

cheer

lib

Paul Komski
07-14-2007, 09:53 AM
The default must have the same basic reference as one of the two Windows lines otherwise it will appear as a third reference.

The following should result in two lines at startup.
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional1" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional2" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

The following should result in three lines at startup.
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\$XXXXX X$
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional1" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional2" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

lib319
07-14-2007, 03:29 PM
Thank you Paul, you sorted out the problem. Now have 2 lines on boot.

Thanks!

lib