I have a boot selector, but only 1 OS!

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Kil4Thril

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My mother's old HP went tits up, so I got a new board for it and installed XP Pro. I deleted both existing partitions, and created one large one, formatting the whole thing. XP installed without a hitch, but I get a screen wanting me to choose 'tween XPPro, and XP Home. How can I get rid of that screen?! It doesn't hurt anything, but it annoys me, and mom is a supervisor that teaches L.E.A.N. and T.P.M. business techniques, so inefficient isn't an option :p
 
Open boot.ini and delete the setup entry. I think that's how you do it. Back it up just in case.
 
attrib -s -h -r C:\boot.ini
notepad C:\boot.ini
Delete the Home line
Save the c:\boot.ini
attrib +s +h +r C:\boot.ini

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What happened was when you were installing the OS you formatted both partitions. In the future, create a partition you want to install on, then just go from there. Use disk manager to partition and format the rest.
 
A fairly safe way to do it is to opem msconfig
Start => Run => msconfig => enter
Go to the Boot.ini tab and click "Check All Boot Paths"
This should remove any bogus entries.
 
Ranma_Sao said:
attrib -s -h -r C:\boot.ini
notepad C:\boot.ini
Delete the Home line
Save the c:\boot.ini
attrib +s +h +r C:\boot.ini

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Worked to a T. Thank you. One more machine cleaned up and running. It's both a boon and a blessing to be the family computer geek. Hopefully some of the younger bunch will start coming around to it :p
 
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