Change Dual Boot

I installed W7 on C: and set up dual booting to my old XP in E:. I no
longer need the dual boot and want to get rid of that old "which OS" boot
question screen when booting. In XP, I could do this from Control
Panel/System/Advanced or just edit boot.ini the C: root. That does not work
in W7.

How do I get rid of the dualboot question screen every time I boot W7?

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JohnW-Mpls

On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:59:28 -0500, JohnW-Mpls wrote:
>
> I installed W7 on C: and set up dual booting to my old XP in E:. I no
> longer need the dual boot and want to get rid of that old "which OS" boot
> question screen when booting. In XP, I could do this from Control
> Panel/System/Advanced or just edit boot.ini the C: root. That does not work
> in W7.
>
> How do I get rid of the dualboot question screen every time I boot W7?

http://www.google.com/search?q=msconfig+"dual+boot"

The second hit is a Youtube video entitled "Remove dual boot with
msconfig".


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Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com
Shikata ga nai...

Hi, John.

Deleting WinXP from a Win7 dual-boot setup consist of 2 1/2 steps:

1. Delete the unwanted OS's Boot Folder.

2. Edit the BCD to remove the unwanted option.

2.5: Clean up by deleting unneeded files.

You apparently have already done Step 1. By booting into Win7 on C: and
deleting E:\Windows, you've deleted the entire WinXP operating system.

Step 2 is harder, but only because it is unfamiliar to most of us - and
because BCDEdit.exe, the built-in tool, has a DOS-like interface that is not
user-friendly. If you are comfy in the Command Prompt window, open it in
Administrator mode. Then, at the Command Prompt, you can type:
bcdedit /delete {ntldr} /f

As usual in the Command Prompt window, type bcdedit /? to see a list of
available switches and parameters.

If you are not comfy with this command, then download and run the free
EasyBCD 2.1 from NeoSmart Technologies:
http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1

Finally, you can delete WinXP's startup files (NTLDR, NTDETECT.COM and
Boot.ini), all in the System Partition, probably your Drive C:. These 3
files total less than 250 KB, so you might want to keep them for reference
or "just in case"; that's why I called this only a half-step. You will
probably want to delete your Program Files and other WinXP-only files from
your Drive E:, too, after making sure that they are not needed anymore. (If
you are really sure, you could just reformat or delete your Drive E: in Step
1.)

RC

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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP (2002-2010)
Windows Live Mail 2011 (Build 15.4.3538.0513) in Win7 Ultimate x64 SP1


"JohnW-Mpls" wrote in message
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I installed W7 on C: and set up dual booting to my old XP in E:. I no
longer need the dual boot and want to get rid of that old "which OS" boot
question screen when booting. In XP, I could do this from Control
Panel/System/Advanced or just edit boot.ini the C: root. That does not work
in W7.

How do I get rid of the dualboot question screen every time I boot W7?

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JohnW-Mpls

On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:59:28 -0500, JohnW-Mpls
<> wrote:

>
>I installed W7 on C: and set up dual booting to my old XP in E:. I no
>longer need the dual boot and want to get rid of that old "which OS" boot
>question screen when booting. In XP, I could do this from Control
>Panel/System/Advanced or just edit boot.ini the C: root. That does not work
>in W7.
>
>How do I get rid of the dualboot question screen every time I boot W7?

This might help
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/win...iguration/1751

Pete

On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:59:28 -0500, JohnW-Mpls <> wrote:

>
>I installed W7 on C: and set up dual booting to my old XP in E:. I no
>longer need the dual boot and want to get rid of that old "which OS" boot
>question screen when booting. In XP, I could do this from Control
>Panel/System/Advanced or just edit boot.ini the C: root. That does not work
>in W7.
>
>How do I get rid of the dualboot question screen every time I boot W7?

Thanks, people, for ways to do this. Turns out I used what I got in a
separate email:

Goto: Computer | Properties | Advanced System Settings | Advanced | Startup
and Recovery | Settings | then select W7 as Default OS and zero the time.

Worked slick - one unnecessary step and message now avoided.

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JohnW-Mpls