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double boot for running two operating systems

Jun 14th, 2003

I have windows xp installed on my master harddrive and tried to install another operating system on my other harddrive and the installation didnt work right. Now when I boot up my computer it asks me what operating system do I want to run. I want to put back my computer to running only windows xp with out it asking me what operating system I want to run.
Is there a way to do this?

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Re: double boot for running two operating systems

Jun 14th, 2003

Reformat the second hard drive - the one with the failed operating system. Then, follow these steps to stop it from asking you to choose an OS:

Run WindowsXP off of your master hdd
Go to the control panel
Go to System Properties
Go to the Advanced tab
Click on the Settings button next to Startup and Recovery
Click "edit" to edit the startup options file manually

Delete the extraneous information about the second operating system. For example, this is what my boot.ini file looks like, configured for only Windows XP Pro:

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[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" /fastdetect

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Re: double boot for running two operating systems

Jun 15th, 2003

I have read in some magzines that the second OS may leave something in the driver C such as windows98, you have to delete these files as well.

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Re: double boot for running two operating systems

Jun 15th, 2003

and you can find the "boot.ini" file in the driver C directly

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Re: double boot for running two operating systems

Mar 11th, 2004

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Originally Posted by cscgal

Reformat the second hard drive - the one with the failed operating system. Then, follow these steps to stop it from asking you to choose an OS:

Run WindowsXP off of your master hdd
Go to the control panel
Go to System Properties
Go to the Advanced tab
Click on the Settings button next to Startup and Recovery
Click "edit" to edit the startup options file manually

Delete the extraneous information about the second operating system. For example, this is what my boot.ini file looks like, configured for only Windows XP Pro:
Help with Code Tags

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[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" /fastdetect
[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" /fastdetect

Thank you very much cscgal! :p I never thought I'd be rid of that annoying prompt.

Regards,

jojomd

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Re: double boot for running two operating systems

Apr 2nd, 2006

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Originally Posted by cscgal

Reformat the second hard drive - the one with the failed operating system. Then, follow these steps to stop it from asking you to choose an OS:

Run WindowsXP off of your master hdd
Go to the control panel
Go to System Properties
Go to the Advanced tab
Click on the Settings button next to Startup and Recovery
Click "edit" to edit the startup options file manually

Delete the extraneous information about the second operating system. For example, this is what my boot.ini file looks like, configured for only Windows XP Pro:
Help with Code Tags

(Toggle Plain Text)
[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" /fastdetect
[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" /fastdetect

To the above procedure as said by "CSGGUL"
if u add

Timeout=0

to "boot.ini" then ur system will attain speed by 30 sec
thanQ

bye
get help at ::> prof.thakur@yahoo.co.in

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Re: double boot for running two operating systems

Apr 3rd, 2006

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