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| Thread ID: 105514 | 2009-12-05 05:06:00 | 2x O/S during bootup - how do I delete one | straka01 (310) | Press F1 |
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| 836654 | 2009-12-05 23:38:00 | I renamed it but it didn't show the change on the bootup screen - where it gives the OS options. What it did do was change the order they were listed in. Before, if I left the PC alone it would wait 15sec and boot from the top one. But after the above, it would wait 15sec and fail to boot on the top one. The bottom one was now the correct one. Confusing.... See where one entry says rdisk(0) and the other says rdisk(1) - does that give any clue? Could I use fdisk to delete the non-active partition? Are there drive utilities that can help? |
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| 836655 | 2009-12-05 23:51:00 | Delete the 2nd one, the boot.ini shows you are booting from default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S | snoopy (74) | ||
| 836656 | 2009-12-05 23:54:00 | So, just to confirm, I should delete: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect Is that right? |
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| 836657 | 2009-12-06 00:09:00 | Go to start / run type msconfig. Select the boot.ini tab, highlight both then click on check all boot paths. Dont touch anything else tho | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 836658 | 2009-12-06 00:32:00 | Great, that did the trick. You can't highligh more than one, but when you click CHECK ALL PATHS it just tells you which one seems to be going nowhere & asks if you want to delete it. Works really well. Many thanks everyone for all your help. |
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