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Thread ID: 41257	2004-01-05 03:04:00	XP PRO BOOT MANAGER	Tony.br (4018)	Press F1

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205387	2004-01-05 03:04:00	I have a perculiar problem and I wonder if anyone has had this and overcome it. My computer was a 500 meg Celeron with 512 meg Ram and a 15 gb HD I recently decided I needed more speed so after much research I purchased the components and built a new one based around a 2500 Athlon XP. New Case, CPU, MB, 80 gb HD, Memory, Graphics card and XP Pro with the rest coming from the old computer I created Ghost images of my present W98 system. (primary and 2 data) I created a new partition on the 80gb Drive, and restored the image file to this partion. Started in safe mode, removed the ENUM key from the registry and allowed W98 to start reconfiguring the system. Some inevertable hiccups but in the end all going 100% Then I created another Partition and installed XP PRO which all went 100% first time around. However when I rebooted I found XP pro had installed its own Boot manager which I did not want as it is a very clumsy piece of work that was not capable of being modified in any way that I can find. As I own Partition magic, I prefer to use PQBOOT32 to effect the OS change when I want it to, not at every boot up I want to use my W98 installation while I gradually get Win XP configured the way I want and then I will delete my W98 partition. I tried FDISK /MBR (which usually gets rid of Boot managers but all it did was stop WIN XP booting with an AUTOCHK error. I decided enough was enough, so I created a new W98 Ghost Image file, removed all primary partitions, created a new one for XP Pro, installed XP and tried rebooting and it was fine. NO BOOT MANAGER. Then I started Partition Magic from a floppy disk, created a new partition for W98 and installed the Image file. Made it active and all went perfectly and it was 100% but despite the fact I had not run XP since creating this partition, the dreaded Boot Manager was back. Does anyone have any ideas how to remove this for good an all, and where in earth is it hiding it	Tony.br (4018)
205388	2004-01-05 05:29:00	There's a file called boot.ini which you can modify... If you're after a prettier boot-manager, try XOSL. Either that, or get used to XP's one.. Just dont reboot!	Chilling_Silently (228)
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