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re: two boot options
Sunday, May 11, 2008 at 11:59 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by joe marcheski
(4 messages posted)
This problem has been resolved; and just in case anyone else might experience the
same thing I'll explain what I did to clear it.
I booted into the Recovery Console and ran the bootfix command. This reconstructed
the boot sector and eliminated the Vista stuff. Now when I boot the machine, only
one boot option window appears with the selections entered in boot.ini. which are
XP and Recovery Console.
joe
On Friday, May 9, 2008 at 12:33 am, joe marcheski wrote:
>I'm trying to remove one of the boot process steps, but get lost in trying to understand
>what I need to do. The following is what I have, and what I'd like to accomplish.
>
>This custom built computer had a dual boot configuration with XP and Vista; XP Home
>SP2 on one HDD (partition C) and Vista Home Prem. on the second HDD (partition F).
>When booting up, an option screen appeared for booting into either XP, Vista, or
>the Recovery Console. When Vista was selected it went right to Vista, but when XP
>was selected a second screen came up with options for booting into either XP or
the
>Recovery Console.
>
>Because I was tired of the problems with Vista, especially after the auto update
>installation of SP3 prevented me from booting into Vista, I removed Vista from
the
>boot process using EasyBCD 1.7.2, and then completely removed Vista from the HDD.
>
>What is left is XP on the first drive (partition C), a second partition on the same
>drive (partition E) containing data, and a third partition (D) on the second drive.
>When booting up, I still get the two screens from which to make selections between
>XP and the Recovery Console. What I'd like to do is eliminate one of those option
>screens, but I don't know how to do that. And by the way, the second option screen
>seems to come from the C:\boot.ini file since it has the same timeout seconds, whereas
>the first screen has a longer timeout.
>
>Any ideas?
>
> joe
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