two operating systems

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rvanb

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I have a question about my operating system. 2 weeks ago I had two operating systems on my harddisk. But when I removed one of them there were still two operating systems when I started up my computer. how do I remove one of the two operating systems out of the start-up list/boot-list?:confused:

greetz,

rvanb
 
How exactly did you remove that second OS?
If it indeed is gone, but for some reason at startup you still get the option to select which operating system you want to boot to, then you can change that. I use WinXP Pro, and so if you have XP Home version, it might vary slightly.

Go to Control Panel>System (or shortcut via keyboard is WinKey+Breakkey)
Select the Advanced tab
In the Startup and Recovery section, click on Settings
Now you either edit the boot file if you feel comfortable doing that, or you could just decrease the number of seconds the computer waits for you to select the OS to boot. Do 1 second or so and you will just boot the "default" OS, assuming that is the OS that was left after you removed the other one. This is what my boot file says:

[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 /NoExecute=OptIn
 
HEHE same here, its the only site they havn't blocked.

well what hes saying is what i was going to say, have you got 1 hdd with two os's or two hdd with one os on each.

that was a general question btw.
 
Or you can try this, goto start->run->type "msconfig" (without quotes)->select the BOOT.INI tab.... now select check all boot paths. The utility will detect that the second entry is now invalid and remove it so it will no longer appear in the boot menu. Goodluck
 
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