XP Boot Issue

Upon bootup I get : Select Op Sys
1. XP Home
2. XP setup

Then I have to act pretty sprightly to make choice 1.

Have gone into BIOS to select boot off HD

Still continues.

 

If I'm not quick enough it will boot into XP setup.

The history is http://www.windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?t=54200 which resulted in me doing a reinstall of XP

 

Hi Roy,

Did you do a repair of XP or a complete re install?

And if it was a clean re install, did you divide the C drive into multiple partitions?


Sounds like you're getting a dual boot menu or recovery options.

For the timing issue, try the following:

Right My Computer
Properties
Advanced Tab

Under Startup and Recovery
Settings bar

Under System Startup
Adjust the times upward - the default should be 30 seconds.

Click the Edit bar and copy and paste that into your post.

Regards - Charles

 

[Boot Loader]
Timeout=5
Default=C:\$WIN_NT$.~BT\BOOTSECT.DAT
[Operating Systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS= "Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
C:\$WIN_NT$.~BT\BOOTSECT.DAT= "Microsoft Windows XP Setup "

Charles,

That above is the current readout.
I have not made any alterations to that readout though to my ignorance of the matter it would appear to me that the last line maybe ought not be there.

BUT...believe me...I WON'T touch a thing until I get feedback.

Thanks
Roy

Have just gone back to ....Default Operating System in System startup and noticed that both of those 2 options are available in the drop down selection

 

Hi Roy,

I don't know what put it there.

You can handle this in one of two ways, this is doing no harm - so you can leave it there if you would prefer that.

Or do the following:

Copy this thing, this thing is the boot.ini file, to Notepad.

Get rid of these two lines:

Default=C:\$WIN_NT$.~BT\BOOTSECT.DAT
C:\$WIN_NT$.~BT\BOOTSECT.DAT= "Microsoft Windows XP Setup "

I want to make sure that you have an XP OS disc that you would use if something went wrong, I think you do. The procedure would be to boot into the Recovery Console to recreate the boot.ini file.

FWIW, my boot.ini. I don't have those lines, but its different form yours because I dual boot.

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS= "XP on D" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS= "Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect=OptIn /NoExecute=OptIn

The highlighted line is the D drive/partition OS, if I took out the one for D, thats what yours should look like.

I know I'm giving a mixed message, but you must be certain that you can recover from bad advice or bad execution.

Don't do anything for awhile and let others look at this.

Regards - Charles

 

Thanks Charles..that seems pretty logical then again these PC's are pretty ornrey critters going by all the posts just on this BB alone.

Like I mentioned I had just gone back to ....Default Operating System in System startup and noticed that both of those 2 options are available in the drop down selection.

In the first instance possibly it would be worth a shot of setting it here on the "Micro soft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn and see how that boots up.

Yes I do have an XP Home OEM disk though trust I don't have to use it for some time yet.

Roy

 

Setting it as the default boot, yes, that should work and also reset the timeout to 30 seconds, so that if this shows up again, you have plenty of time to react.

Regards - Charles

 

OK n THANKS...we won on that one and I have reduced the "show time" to 2 seconds.

However, as you suggested, the removal of script as outlined by you is apparently the "correct" way to deal with this "annoyance" as I believe I shouldn't even have such an option on bootup.

Just another thing before I finish.
Perhaps I am becoming a bit too instantaneous but is there a way to manage the time factor in relation to the BLACK screen following bootup until Welcome/Windows?