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Multiple Operating System at boot?
I am forced to choose between two identically described operating
systems during bootup on my XP SP3 machine. I have seen this before on other machines, due to my choice of system installation method. I have always been able to correct (eliminate) the superfluous one by editing the boot.ini file. This time, however, the ini file has only one system choice, and so there is nothing to correct. What am I missing? Thank you BF |
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Multiple Operating System at boot?
On 01/11/2013 06:41 AM, Frederick wrote:
I am forced to choose between two identically described operating systems during bootup on my XP SP3 machine. I have seen this before on other machines, due to my choice of system installation method. I have always been able to correct (eliminate) the superfluous one by editing the boot.ini file. This time, however, the ini file has only one system choice, and so there is nothing to correct. What am I missing? Thank you BF This might work: run msconfig and have it check for invalid boot options http://windowsxp.mvps.org/bootopt.htm -- https://www.createspace.com/3707686 |
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Multiple Operating System at boot?
Frederick wrote:
I am forced to choose between two identically described operating systems during bootup on my XP SP3 machine. I have seen this before on other machines, due to my choice of system installation method. I have always been able to correct (eliminate) the superfluous one by editing the boot.ini file. This time, however, the ini file has only one system choice, and so there is nothing to correct. What am I missing? Thank you BF Another possibility, is you're looking at the wrong copy of boot.ini . If you have two partitions, with WinXP on each one, you could actually be using the boot.ini of the other partition. Look carefully at Disk Management, and note the notation of the various partitions. Notations such as "System", "Boot", "Pagefile". When cloning disks, the first time you boot the cloned copy, you should disconnect the original disk. Otherwise, the clone sees the Pagefile on the original disk, and gets very confused. You'll also notice the partition lettering is all screwed up if that happens. Once the clone has been booted by itself, just the one time, you can shut down and connect the other disks back up, and at that point, the clone is no longer sensitive to the issue. It's only during the first boot of the clone, that bad things happen. Paul |
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Multiple Operating System at boot?
"Frederick" wrote in message news
I am forced to choose between two identically described operating systems during bootup on my XP SP3 machine. I have seen this before on other machines, due to my choice of system installation method. I have always been able to correct (eliminate) the superfluous one by editing the boot.ini file. This time, however, the ini file has only one system choice, and so there is nothing to correct. What am I missing? Add it too the boot.ini in [operating systems] partition(2) \WINDOWS="Windows" or \WINDOWS="Dam I see it" Reboot and you see it [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windo ws XP Media Center Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windo ws" |
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