Offered menu before XP loads

[ehdigger]

I reformated my hard drive and replaced W98SE with XP professional. But now before it loads I get a menu to select windows XP or windows, and a 30 second timer before XP loads. If I select Windows, nothing happens. Also, to make this more inconvenient, m
y USB keyboard doesn't let me select so I have to wait out the 30 seconds. How do I get arid of this?

[Kelly]

Go to Start/Run and type in: msconfig
Then go to the Boot.ini Tab and click on Check All Boot Paths. If you
receive a warning about a duplicate path: Do you want to remove, choose
yes.

Or...

Right click the My Computer icon/Properties/Advanced/Startup and
Recovery/Settings/System Startup/Edit.

How to Edit the BOOT.INI File in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q289/0/22.asp


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All the Best,
Kelly

MS-MVP Win98/XP
[AE-Windows® XP]

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com

Utilities for Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_u.htm#xp_util

"ehdigger" > wrote in message
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> I reformated my hard drive and replaced W98SE with XP professional. But
now before it loads I get a menu to select windows XP or windows, and a 30
second timer before XP loads. If I select Windows, nothing happens. Also,
to make this more inconvenient, my USB keyboard doesn't let me select so I
have to wait out the 30 seconds. How do I get arid of this?