Eliminate OS choice from boot screen? How

[elec.tron]

I ended up with a additional XP Pro installation on on drive C, which i've since deleted, but still have to choose between two OS's on the boot screen. I can't seem to remember how to get rid of the boot choice thats been deleted. Anybody know how to do this?
Thanks
elec.tron

[cack01]

I think you eighter need to delete your MBR and then recreate it.

Or

change a few lines in your boot.ini <-----I think this is the right choice.

Look in these threads for some info, b/c I"m not really sure what you need to change.
http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=355437&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending

[macky]

If I remember this right(who knows, I could be wrong), go into your C drive and open up the boot.ini file, go in and delete the line that has the OS that you deleted(I think they are in order of installation) , and if you aren't multibooting anymore, set bootmulti to 0.

:edit:
hehe, cack got his reply off just before I did.

[elec.tron]

Thanks for the replys, and the search, now why didn't I think of that?

Anyhow, this is what I got in boot.ini

[boot loader]
timeout=10
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 Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINXP="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

this line is the one I want to get rid of,

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

Do I also need to get rid of "\WINDOWS" in the line above, or change it to WINXP? I know i'm being paranoid here but i'd hate like h*** to somehow hose this install, or the ability to boot to WINXP install
elec.tron

[macky]

"Windows" and "WinXP" are the folders that the boot loader are directing to. So do not delete that first occurance of "'Windows" or the boot loader will be lost and not know where to look for the OS.



:Edited for acuracy:

[cack01]

Mac is right, they are all pointing to the same location.

I think you just need to remove one of the windows lines so it looks like this.

[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW
S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINXP="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect


My win2k boot.ini looks like this almost the same. I would back up your boot.ini before you edit it though.

Here is what mine looks like:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect

[elec.tron]

OK, should have posted more info from the getgo. I think what happened was when I clocked the FSB a bit to high it corrupted something, the dreaded sata raid array maybe? Not sure, anyway the system would continualy cycle through the boot process stopping just short of going to the desktop. What I did was use a XP install disk I created to slipstream raid drivers ect, to do a repair. What this disk did was bypass the repair option for some reason and start to do an install. Be that as it may it did allow me to get to my original WINXP install, where the partial install created a folder on C: drive named WINDOWS, which I deleted. The WINDOWS vs WINXP thing is why i'm a little confused about how to edit boot.ini.
Thanks mucho for the help and advice.
elec.tron