Dual boot ?

[HammerHeadHank]

Hi, I recently tried to copy my operating system ( XP PRO ) from one hard-drive to another,with partition magic and upon a system reboot I have the option to select which operating system to boot from.Well my question is since I removed One of the hard-drives I don't need the select which operating system to boot from.How do I remove that command string?
When I run the msconfig command and try to remove it it tells me to log on with administrator rights action denied well according to the control panel I am the administrator.Please help!
Thank you,HammerHeadHank

 

[RedDragonXXX]

Well it's simple.

Go into the search and type boot.ini. Open it up with notepad and simply remove the entry that you don't use anymore. Save it and reboot.

I would recommend that you bake backup of your boot.ini in case something goes wrong. Just take original and make a copy of it boot.ini.backup.

 

[HammerHeadHank]

Well it's simple.

Go into the search and type boot.ini. Open it up with notepad and simply remove the entry that you don't use anymore. Save it and reboot.

I would recommend that you bake backup of your boot.ini in case something goes wrong. Just take original and make a copy of it boot.ini.backup.

Hi, thank you for the response.I tried what you suggested and now upon system boot I receive the same screen except of given the choice to select between two XP op systems it now says windows default and the XP op system as my choices.Did I miss a step?

Thank You,HammerHeadHank

 

[TheCheat]

It should look something like this:

[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

 

[HammerHeadHank]

Hi, this is what the boot.ini reads :
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional (#1)" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

I deleted the top string but still get the dual boot option This is it before I deleted the top string command any thoughts?
Thanks HammerHeadhank

 

[Skeith]

Hi, this is what the boot.ini reads :
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional (#1)" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

I deleted the top string but still get the dual boot option This is it before I deleted the top string command any thoughts?
Thanks HammerHeadhank

I think you have to remove the /noexcecute=optin fromt the string.
You could also rebuild the boot.ini in recovery console with a simple command.