Re: How to grt rid of dual boot XP??

From: Kelly (kelly_at_mvps.org)
Date: 02/17/05 

Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 23:41:26 -0600

Hi Ron,

Are you speaking of Q289022? If so, it works fine here. This may have to
do with a country/language search. If you meant literally within the body,
scroll down to the bottom and click on Contact Us. Or send the correction
to me via private email and I will submit it for you. 

-- 
All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP)
Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com
"Ron Sommer" <rsommer@nospam.ktis.net> wrote in message 
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> Kelly,
> That Knowledge Base article contains an error.
> How do I contact Microsoft to get the error fixed?
> -- 
> Ron Sommer
>
> "Kelly" <kelly@mvps.org> wrote in message 
> news:%23d9S61xEFHA.3304@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> Options:
>>
>> Go to Start/Run and type in:  msconfig
>> Then go to the Boot.ini Tab and click on Check All Boot Paths. If you 
>> receive a warning about a duplicate path:  Do you want to remove, choose 
>> yes.
>>
>> Or...
>>
>> Right click the My Computer icon/Properties/Advanced/Startup and 
>> Recovery/Settings/System Startup/Edit.
>>
>> How to Edit the BOOT.INI File in Windows XP
>> http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q289/0/22.asp
>>
>> Added info by M. Stevens:
>>
>> I have two installations of XP on the same partition, how do I remove the 
>> one I don't need?
>>
>> Boot to the desired version of Windows XP you want to keep. Making note 
>> of the position in the boot menu. This will be important when you edit 
>> boot.ini.
>>
>> Open a command prompt * and type " echo %windir%" without the quotes. 
>> This will give you the current Windows folder you are using.
>>
>> From Explorer, delete the folder containing the installation you want to 
>> remove. The original install folder is usually called Windows and 
>> subsequent folders will be derivatives of Windows or Winnt.
>>
>> From System Properties [Winkey+Pause/Break] > Advanced Tab > Statup and 
>> Recovery > Settings > Edit.
>> Select the Edit button and from notepad, first backup boot.ini, by going 
>> to File; Save As and rename boot.ini. to something like boot.inibak.
>>
>> Remove the line referencing the installation not chosen; you made note of 
>> in step one.
>> Set timeout=0 so the system boots directly into Win XP (you will not get 
>> the boot menu).
>> Save As boot.ini & Exit.
>>
>> Reboot.
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> All the Best,
>> Kelly (MS-MVP)
>>
>> Troubleshooting Windows XP
>> http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com
>>
>>
>> "Burgy" <burgy@columbus.rr.com> wrote in message 
>> news:ScdQd.26101$XY5.25248@fe2.columbus.rr.com...
>>>I built a new system. I bought XP Pro b4 hand, but decided to go to a 
>>>more powerful system because 98 an my old system were not up to video 
>>>stuff. When I first installed XP to the new hard drive, it sukked. Seemed 
>>>like it wasn't all there. After fighting it for a couple of days, thought 
>>>I'd try to reinstall over the top like you used to do with 98. Seemed to 
>>>go well and worked like a charm. Never noticed that it had created a dual 
>>>boot situation. The 'working well installation' is on D drive, where as 
>>>the crappy junk installation is on C drive. When I boot up. I always get 
>>>the choose screen. Xp Pro one or the other.
>>> Naturally, only the one actually will boot. I renamed the Windows 
>>> directory on C drive to see if everything would work ok withou it. That 
>>> was a few months ago. I guess i can just delete that whole directory and 
>>> not hurt anything. I was just wondering if there is a proper way of 
>>> doing it ?? Really not a big deal, just bugs me. I know I probably 
>>> missed something and caused it, and if I ever really have to reinstall, 
>>> I'll see what I did wrong. But It's working so well, I don't want to 
>>> start from scratch at this point. I'll prolly just delete the XP on C, 
>>> and wait 'Til something makes me start over.
>>> Thanks for any reply.
>>>
>>
>>
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