Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Peter Armstrong" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Totally Unrelated... How to edit boot menu? Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 13:47:17 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 48 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: modem-972.arbok.dialup.pol.co.uk X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 I'm no expert with XP and haven't had to edit my boot settings, but you can edit your boot.ini file like this: Go to Control Panel, select System, Advanced tab, under Startup and Recovery select Settings, under System Startup select Edit. This opens up the boot.ini file. Under [operating systems] you've probably got duplicate entries of something like multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect You'll need to delete one of then, if you've re-installed to the same hd/partition the lines should be identical. If they're not the same post them here and on what hd/partitions XP was installed. Also check the default value is correct, default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS that's mine for the above OS, I'm only running XP on this PC. Peter "Andrew Murray" wrote > > Hey All, > > I have installed Win98 and XP on the same machine (separate HD of course) > but I tried to install Redhat linux on it as well (successfully) but it > screwed up my XP install and I had to re-install XP after getting rid of > Linux (i suppose 3 OSs was asking for trouble). > > However now I have two instances of XP on my boot menu at start up one works > the other doesn't, can anyone tell me how I can edit this to get rid of the > unwanted one that doesn't work?? > > Totally unrelated, I know but I trust you guys to give me a sensible answer > (or have I just dug my own grave :)). > > Max > >