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Sometimes when reinstalling Windows XP
people have been known to actually install a second copy of the operating system
rather than overwrite the original one. When this happen a menu appears upon
boot up asking which operating system you wish to boot to. After successfully
deleting the 'other' operating system the menu can still appear causing a slight
delay in booting your system. This is because the system (or boot.ini file)
still thinks the operating system is available for use. In order to remove this
extraneous addition to the boot ini file you will need to do a bit of editing.
To edit the boot ini file proceed as follows.
PLEASE NOTE: Before editing the boot ini
file make sure you make a copy of it first and store it on a floppy disk. Should
any problems occur after you have edited the file you can then always copy the
original boot ini file back to the C: drive, thus restoring your system back to
normal.
1/ Click Start button
2/ From the Start Menu select
Control Panel
3/ In Control panel click the
System icon
4/ In the System Properties Window
click the Advanced tab
5/ If you now look towards the bottom of
the Advanced window you will see a section marked Startup and Recovery
6/ Click the settings button
7/ The Startup and Recovery window now
opens
8/ At the top of this window you will see
a section marked System Startup
9/ Click the Edit button
10/ This will open the Boot.Ini file in
Notepad
11/ Edit the boot.ini file so that
it looks like the example below: PLEASE NOTE: If you are using XP Home
edition then change the second line of the boot.ini file accordingly.
[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
12/ After making the
alterations go to File on the main notepad toolbar and select Save
to save the new boot ini file.
13/
Exit notepad, system properties and control panel and then reboot your
machine. You should boot straight into windows xp.
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