gettin rid of a dual boot

i had a dual boot screen on my pc and now i don't..........i don't even have the os on that hard drive..........well anyhow, i still get the dual boot screen when i boot up.......can anyone tell me how to get rid of this? i have heard it is in the system.ini file but i can't find it.

 

Simple.

Right click on my computer
Properties (left click)
Advanced
Startup and Recovery
Settings
Edit

Now you should see this in the BOOT.INI file:

[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= "Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

Note. The [operating systems] line if you have another line after the "Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect" line delete this, this was your old/other OS.

Save

**WARNING** do not mess this up! As the BOOT.INI file is used in the boot process. The above is a copy of my computer with no changes after install.

My primary drive is a ATA drive (disk (0)) OS installed on the first partition (partition (1)) of this drive so don't freak if your BOOT.INI is slightly different.

More on this:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q102873

Cheers

Dagga

 

nope that is zakly how it was..............thx for your help.

 

boot.ini

Here is my dual boot.ini FWIW


[boot loader]
timeout=30
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:\= "Microsoft Windows "

 

mine was like this.............

[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW
S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS= "Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS= "Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect

and deleteing the "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS= "Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect" solved the problem.........now i boot right into xp np...........thx guys.