[pchelpers] Re: Enabling Hard Disk

Hi Susan,

Sunday, August 24, 2003, 12:01:14 AM, you wrote:

smd> In the meantime, I have one further question:  If I
smd> reinstall Windows again, it'll show yet another OS on bootup. 
smd> I'm not too keen on having multiple Windows 2000 boot options to
smd> choose from, especially when they are one and the same.  Is there
smd> a simple way of getting rid of one after everything is running
smd> smoothly?  Or should they stay as is?  I've run into Windows
smd> problems in the past and had to reinstall Windows many times.  If
smd> it wasn't for reformatted my hard drive from time to time, I'd
smd> probably have upwards of 5 or 6 Windows 2000 boot options to
smd> choose from by now!  lol!  I'm just afraid of getting too many
smd> every time I reinstall Windows.  Is there a way around that?

That's in C:\BOOT.INI.  Don't delete anything; rename the items first,
then reboot and make sure of which one Windows starts up with (there
may be minor but critical differences), before you go deleting any
lines.  Here's mine:

[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" 
/fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" 
/fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional 
on E:" /fastdetect
C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows Recovery Console" /cmdcons


As you can see, there are 4 OSes listed; the first one is the active
one.  The second is for C:, and doesn't work anymore (so I can take it
out), and the third one was on the original boot drive, and is also
obsolete, so I can take it out also.  I could cut mine down to this:

[boot loader]
timeout=1
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" 
/fastdetect
C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows Recovery Console" /cmdcons

Actually, as you can see, it shows what the default entry is, so you
can just keep that one and get rid of any others, including
duplicates.

--Scott.


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