Get rid of 'ghost' OS at boot-up

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Johanna

Hi!
At boot-up I get a screen asking which OS I'd like to boot (the way you
get if you install two MS OSs on the same machine, like a lot of people
had to do back in the 9x / NT days)

The problem is, I have only one OS!

I THINK this may have been caused by the way I formatted the disk. I
typed " format c: /s " from a Win98 boot disk.
(I was getting a bit fed-up because I was having some problems
installing XP, so I tried all the tricks I could think of. /s put some
Win98 files on the hard drive to facilitate install if I remember
correctly. )

I don't want this at boot-up, because it delays the boot by 30 seconds
while it's counting down waiting for the user to select OS.

Do you know how I can get rid of this irritating ghost OS, or at least
set the counting to 0, or a low number? (Re-formatting the disk is not
an option :-)

Jo
 
Johanna rattled this off his keyboard on 10/10/2006 :
Hi!
At boot-up I get a screen asking which OS I'd like to boot (the way you get
if you install two MS OSs on the same machine, like a lot of people had to do
back in the 9x / NT days)

The problem is, I have only one OS!

I THINK this may have been caused by the way I formatted the disk. I typed "
format c: /s " from a Win98 boot disk.
(I was getting a bit fed-up because I was having some problems installing XP,
so I tried all the tricks I could think of. /s put some Win98 files on the
hard drive to facilitate install if I remember correctly. )

I don't want this at boot-up, because it delays the boot by 30 seconds while
it's counting down waiting for the user to select OS.

Do you know how I can get rid of this irritating ghost OS, or at least set
the counting to 0, or a low number? (Re-formatting the disk is not an option
:-)

Jo
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Right-click My Computer and choose Properties.
Click Advanced, Settings (under Startup and Recovery).
Choose the OS from the 'Default operating system' drop-down list to
switch the default. To suppress the menu entirely, uncheck Time to
display list of operating systems. Click OK twice.
 
Senex said:
Johanna rattled this off his keyboard on 10/10/2006 :


Right-click My Computer and choose Properties.
Click Advanced, Settings (under Startup and Recovery).
Choose the OS from the 'Default operating system' drop-down list to switch
the default. To suppress the menu entirely, uncheck Time to display list
of operating systems. Click OK twice.
Click to expand...
If that doesn't do the trick, boot your XP cd and do just like you are doing
a clean install until you get to the point where you get the message "Press
R to enter recovery console" or something to that effect. When you get into
the console, do a fixboot and then fixmbr. That should do away with the dual
boot for good.

Ed
 
Ed said:
If that doesn't do the trick, boot your XP cd and do just like you are doing
a clean install until you get to the point where you get the message "Press
R to enter recovery console" or something to that effect. When you get into
the console, do a fixboot and then fixmbr. That should do away with the dual
boot for good.
Click to expand...


both of these suggestions are a little off. the first becuase it does
not solve the problem and may not work, the second because it's way
overkill and may not work.

open msconfig. select BOOT.INI tab. click Check All Boot Paths. one of
them will be flagged as wrong. remove it. done.

carl
 
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