help - boot paths, msconfig, boot ini

**gmc007** · 19th February 2006

a m8 has just bought a new pc and tryed changing the xp boot screen like i did on mine but it never worked and now his pc thinks there is xp installed on the pc twice so when you switch it on it asks which one you want to run only one works how can i remove the other?

thanks in advance

**Spennyboy** · 19th February 2006

Start - Run - "msconfig"

BOOT INI Tab.

"Check Boot Paths".

It should then tell you one is not valid and have the option to remove it.

Please let someone confirm first tho - just in case

Take a look in the mean time - so you know what im talking about lol.

**gmc007** · 20th February 2006

Originally Posted by Spencer_y89

Start - Run - "msconfig"

BOOT INI Tab.

"Check Boot Paths".

It should then tell you one is not valid and have the option to remove it.

Please let someone confirm first tho - just in case

Take a look in the mean time - so you know what im talking about lol.

can any one confirm as i cant check it till tomorrow when i get back to his pc

**Spennyboy** · 20th February 2006

im 90% sure thats right - just dont want you messing up your boot ini.

renaming the thread would help as "help" isnt very descriptive.

edit: - as i have done, so anyone who knows anything about the above should glance over

**/dev/null** · 20th February 2006

You can edit boot.ini manually... Go into system properties and its somewhere in there.. I'll check when I get onto a windows PC later...

**Pegasus** · 20th February 2006

Post the contents of the boot.ini file here (you will find it in the root of whatever drive you have installed the OS on).

**gmc007** · 27th February 2006

have only just bin to my m8s to fix this for him and i delete the one it says is not valid and when you reboot the pc its back again any help guys

**/dev/null** · 27th February 2006

right-click on my computer -->properties-->Advanced-->(Startup & recovery) Settings -->(System Startup) Edit. This is an example of mine, yours should be something similar (same structure) but prehaps with different boot flags (such as nogui)...

Code:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /noguiboot /NoExecute=OptIn