Resolved Use msconfig to edit the boot.ini of startup in Windows XP

This is a question on editing boot.ini in Windows XP.

At one time I tried to install a thumb drive using what for was a poorly desinged format and boot routine.

My Startup screen contains the option of loading Microsoft Windows XP or the GRUB bootloader.

I stumbled across the information releated in msconfig. Start > run > msconfig > open boot.ini tab.

In there is the following which is are to type out accurately by line:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)disk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
"Microsoft Windows XP Pro Professional "/nonexecute=optin/fast detect/
c:\GRLDR= "Start Grub "


ends.

It looks like an old style auto.exe and I wan to elimination the Grub option.

Can I delete lines?
Which ones?
Will XP boot normally with the prompts afterwards?

I noted that in my operation XP system, boot.ini contains the first group
of these phrases.

This should be an easy 'Resolve" but I am caution about doing any of these changes.

 

Ok thanks,

Sorry about the poor grammar with the 'can I haz' errors. I'll mark solved when I straighten it out.

 

Still problems.

Please be more complete.


The bullet option to use a modified boot.ini file is greyed out (turned off) , no edit or save option is visible and the only movement of the line to delete is 'move' up or 'move down.' I think I investigated that much myself but found no editing process.

 

Criminy.

I have the instructions printed out and will take care of it soon.

 

Marked resolved.

The procedure looked more scary than it was.

 

The dual menu is off-- a problem I had on two drives, one perhaps cloned from another. I cannot recall. But I am still in the midst of solving other things all of which cropped up at the same time.

Wrestling with things like installing a thumb drive where there is no easy way to format or use the thing as a boot device was, I believe, where the dual boot menu got installed by something like the HP or Linux progs which can format one.

 

You can see my other threads for more interesting problems.