Hey guys, how can I get rid of a dead O.S. startup chioce when I reboot my system? What happened was I have a computer running WinXP, I installed a second hard drive in my computer and installed WinXP to that drive. Then I took the second drive out and put it in another machine. I did this because I was having compatibility issues installing on the other machine. Anyway, now when I go to boot my original XP box, in the O.S. menu it asks which WinXP do you want to load? Well obviosly only one will boot. How can I get rid of the dead one? Thanks for the help.
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To remove an entry you can use several approaches:
1. Fastest way:
Start, Run, bootcfg /delete /ID2
2. Manually edit Boot.ini
. right-click My Computer, Properties, Advanced, Startup and Recovery - Settings, and use the boot.ini editor;
. or, Start, Run, msconfig. There is a boot.ini editor tab you can use;
3. Use bootcfg.exe
. Start, Run, cmd
bootcfg /rebuild
1. Fastest way:
Start, Run, bootcfg /delete /ID2
2. Manually edit Boot.ini
. right-click My Computer, Properties, Advanced, Startup and Recovery - Settings, and use the boot.ini editor;
. or, Start, Run, msconfig. There is a boot.ini editor tab you can use;
3. Use bootcfg.exe
. Start, Run, cmd
bootcfg /rebuild
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