Getting rid of boot partition menu

In a botched attempt to resolve some problems with XP Pro I created
another partition on my
primary master HDD. This created a boot menu that comes up during
start-up, asking me which
Windows XP I want to boot to. If I'm fast enough to select the second
choice in the menu it
boots successfully to my original XP installation, which now works
fine. So, to get rid
of the second boot I simply deleted the partition, using Partition
Magic. The only problem is
it still offers me the menu at start-up.

The C:\boot.ini file contains:

[boot loader]
timeout=1
default=signature(43009b61)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
signature(43009b61)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft
Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptOut

I suspect I solve the problem by either removing this file entirely,
or editing it somehow. But, I though it wise to
seek some advice before proceeding. Am I on the right track?

TIA

Ed



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