[wayne1721]

This is more of an annoyance then a problem,
A while back I installed an additional hard drive to install windows xp 64 on to explore its features and such.I have since removed the hard drive but when computer boots it still gives me a choice to load win xp home or win xp 64 even tho 64 is no longer there.
How can I disable this to boot with the only operating system on it?

[redaxe]

Open Windows Explorer and then click the Tools button at the top.
Select Folder Options and then click the View tab.
Once in there, look for a couple of entries.
Show hidden files and folders and Hide protected operating system files (recommended)
Check the former and uncheck the latter and also uncheck the option that says Hide file extensions for known file types.
Click Apply and OK out.

Now check the click your C: drive
Look for a file that's called boot.ini
Right click that file and open with Notepad
Now look for the entry that refers to the old and non-existant XP-64 installation and delete it. Also delete the line with the timer option in it.

If you're not confident about what lines to delete, then post the entire contents of the file here and I'll try to help you weed out the entries you want to get rid of.

Good luck

[wayne1721]

Hi,,I followed directions to a t,,only file found for boot.ini was boot.ini backup which listed only winxp home

[wayne1721]

Sorry,,I tried it again and deleted what you said,should be ok now.

[wayne1721]

oops,,spoke too soon,upon rebooting I get error message as follows.
"windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem"
"could not read from the selected boot disk.Check boot path and disk hardware"
I checked in the bios and the winxp home is selected to boot but doesnt boot.
Now what?

[redaxe]

Copy the contents of boot.ini and paste it in a new entry here. That's the only way we can get it to work properly.

[wayne1721]

I got into windows now by selecting from f5 or f8 and choosing boot from last known good configuration,then I did system restore to yesterday,since all is ok now other then the annoyance mentioned prior,I will be leave as is but thanks for your assistance.

[Geekgirl]

Click Start>right click on My Computer>Properties>Advanced>Startup and recovery settings>Edit
and then just delete the entry that is no good ...lemme know

[wayne1721]

it changed one thing,when in boot up mode win xp home is 1st and win xp 64 is 2nd instead of the other way around.