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WTF! - "Please Choose Which Operating System You Would Like To Load" by M73A on 09-12-2006 at 08:46 PM
i formatted my hard drive (the one with windows, and now when i turn on my pc i get and option to load Windows XP, and Windows XP.... how can i remove the second one?
why is it there? i only have one windows installed now
Thanks
RE: WTF! - "Please Choose Which Operating System You Would Like To Load" by Mike on 09-12-2006 at 08:50 PM
Do you only have 1 partion?
Did you actually format the whole drive before re-installing windows?
If yes, then I don't know what really happened...
If no, you can remove the other entry, by editing the boot.ini file which is located in the root of one of your drives. (don't know how windows decides where to put the boot.ini file.)
You can also click -> Start -> Run -> msconfig -> boot.ini and set the timeout to one second.
The boot manager will only appear for a sec.
RE: WTF! - "Please Choose Which Operating System You Would Like To Load" by M73A on 09-12-2006 at 09:00 PM
ahh cool, ill do that...
i only formatted one partition, i have a ton of stuff on the second one that i want... (not windows though, which is why i found it starnge that windows was still previously installed)
RE: WTF! - "Please Choose Which Operating System You Would Like To Load" by ShawnZ on 09-12-2006 at 09:08 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Mike
Do you only have 1 partion?
Did you actually format the whole drive before re-installing windows?
If yes, then I don't know what really happened...
If no, you can remove the other entry, by editing the boot.ini file which is located in the root of one of your drives. (don't know how windows decides where to put the boot.ini file.)
You can also click -> Start -> Run -> msconfig -> boot.ini and set the timeout to one second.
The boot manager will only appear for a sec.
why not just use msconfig to delete the entry?
RE: WTF! - "Please Choose Which Operating System You Would Like To Load" by Mike on 09-12-2006 at 09:09 PM
Well, the boot.ini file might had been stored in the 2nd partion.
But Windows Setup should had removed the previous entry 
RE: WTF! - "Please Choose Which Operating System You Would Like To Load" by ShawnZ on 09-12-2006 at 09:16 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Mike
Well, the boot.ini file might had been stored in the 2nd partion.
But Windows Setup should had removed the previous entry
then why suggest to use msconfig to change the timeout?
RE: WTF! - "Please Choose Which Operating System You Would Like To Load" by Mike on 09-12-2006 at 09:22 PM
quote:Msconfig cannot delete boot entries (at least for me, but this might be because I'm using SP1, or because I only have 1 boot entry on my boot.ini file)
Originally posted by ShawnZ
quote:
Originally posted by Mike
Do you only have 1 partion?
Did you actually format the whole drive before re-installing windows?
If yes, then I don't know what really happened...
If no, you can remove the other entry, by editing the boot.ini file which is located in the root of one of your drives. (don't know how windows decides where to put the boot.ini file.)
You can also click -> Start -> Run -> msconfig -> boot.ini and set the timeout to one second.
The boot manager will only appear for a sec.
why not just use msconfig to delete the entry?
quote:Wrong quote?
Originally posted by ShawnZ
quote:
Originally posted by Mike
Well, the boot.ini file might had been stored in the 2nd partion.
But Windows Setup should had removed the previous entry
then why suggest to use msconfig to change the timeout?