How to Remove Dual Boot?

How to Remove Dual Boot??

Running Win XP SP1.

Now dual booting Win XP Pro from C drive and second hard drive. I want to dump the booting from the second drive. Can I simply delete the entry from the boot.ini file and then delete the windows folder from the second drive?

 

Yes

 

Yes, but you will need to edit the Boot.ini Manually to get rid of the dual boot menu, to do this go to My computer right click > Properties > Advanced > Startup and recovery settings > System startup > Edit.

 

I've had a problem with dual boot since upgrading to XP Pro.

I had to do multiple installs/uninstalls and ended up with the dual boot menu, both displaying windows XP.

It's not a major problem, as I set the delay to 1 second, but I'd like to remove the thing all together.

This is the current boot.ini:

[boot loader]
timeout=1
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS= "Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WIN_XP= "Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

How should I edit it?

 

Another alternative I use since I hate having to time the keypress correctly to do a safe mode boot is to have my boot.ini look like this. It defaults to a normal boot after 5 seconds but does offer a selection of the bottom line where the switches have been added to do a verbose safe mode boot (one that shows all the stuff loading).

Code:

[boot loader]
timeout=5  
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS  
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS= "Normal" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS= "Safe Mode" /fastdetect /safeboot /sos /bootlog

You can tell from an examination of yours (or mine) that both lines point to the same place by looking at the disk, rdisk, and partition. As noted earlier, the default line ends with WINDOWS and the forum displaying 'S' on a separate line is a glitch in the way the forum handles that particular line.

 

Thanks everyone.

I taken PeteCs approach as it's faster loading (not by much but enough to matter)

I've taken a copy of Newts version in case I need it later.