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ahalp

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    Gettring rid of boot screen
    « on: February 21, 2009, 04:41:30 PM »
    I recently installed the windows 7 beta on my computer with dual booting.

     My primary os, windows xp, is on my first partition (C:), and windows 7 was on my second partition (D:). Later on I decided to get rid of windows 7, so being unexperienced and all, I formatted my D partition through windows xp. However, now when I boot up my computer, I still get the screen asking my which os to use. I was just wondering if there is a way to get rid of this screen, without any reinstalling of operating systems.  ???

    Thanks


    EDIT: I've worked it now using another software... thanks for the help though!
    « Last Edit: February 21, 2009, 05:50:41 PM by ahalp »

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    Re: Gettring rid of boot screen
    « Reply #1 on: February 21, 2009, 04:55:09 PM »
    Yes, there is...

    First, does it show a time delay?
    And second, is the default choice your previous version of Windows?

    Right click My Computer, go to Properties.
    Click the "Advanced" tab.

    System Startup.
    Select default OS. Change the seconds to 3, never set to 0! If something goes wrong, this is a nice thing to be able to access...

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      Re: Gettring rid of boot screen
      « Reply #2 on: February 21, 2009, 05:04:32 PM »
      XP professional is the only os listed under default os.

      When i boot up my pc, I get 2 options; previous version of windows, and windows 7...

      windows 7 is the default there, and there is a 30 sec time delay.....

      I tried the boot.ini in xp and check all boot paths, but windows 7 isn't listed there...  ???

      Here's what is says.
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      ;
      ;Warning: Boot.ini is used on Windows XP and earlier operating systems.
      ;Warning: Use BCDEDIT.exe to modify Windows Vista boot options.
      ;
      [boot loader]
      timeout=3
      default=signature(12931292)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
      [operating systems]
      signature(12931292)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT

      Windows 7 isn't listed there so I have no idea how to get rid of its boot screen...

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        Re: Gettring rid of boot screen
        « Reply #3 on: February 21, 2009, 05:20:21 PM »

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          Re: Gettring rid of boot screen
          « Reply #4 on: February 21, 2009, 05:23:23 PM »
          I was just reading over the my boot.ini file and I just realized this :

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          Boot.ini is used on Windows XP and earlier operating systems.
          I'm guessing windows 7 doesn't show up on it...


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          Re: Gettring rid of boot screen
          « Reply #5 on: February 21, 2009, 09:58:43 PM »

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          Re: Gettring rid of boot screen
          « Reply #6 on: February 21, 2009, 10:40:09 PM »
          Judging by his Edit i guess he's done well...
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            Re: Gettring rid of boot screen
            « Reply #7 on: February 22, 2009, 01:43:26 PM »
            EDIT: I've worked it now using another software... thanks for the help though!

            Care to share it with us ? .... may be useful to others in future  ;)