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by cakester

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I partitioned my hard drive and installed XP. I hard some problems but in the end, I ended up installing XP on both partitions. I then reformated the second partition. The problem is at start up I still get the option of which OS to run. One loads the XP and if I choose the second option, I get an error (because it's not there anymore). How would I corect this so that XP boots automatically and does not give me the option?

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by unhappyuser

Goto Start>Run>msconfig>Boot.ini and click on Check All Boot Paths. Does it ask to Remove an Invalid Entry? Say Yes and restart and now it should boot straight into the valid installtion.

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by cakester

Thanks. This worked fine but why does windows tell me that access is denied because I must be a part of the administrators group. I am the administrator, in fact if your not logged on as one you don't even have access to this. I just said yes and everything works.

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