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    how to remove a option from startup menu

    Hi all,
    i had a system that had three operating systems win 98 on c,win xp on f,and linux - i decided to remove the linux installation and didnt know how to do it so i just installed win xp in the same drive and formatted it.but this gave a new prob - there are two xp options in the startup menu how do i remove the option corresponding to the installation that no longer exists??
    thanx a lot

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    Hi and welcome to Virtual dr.

    Two options.. either manually edit boot.ini file in the root of C to remove the phantom entry (open it in notepad)

    or run msconfig and select the boot.ini tab and let it fix it automatically by selecting "check all boot paths"


    EDIT- having just re-read your question I realize that there are now actually two installations of XP on your computer... one on F and one on I... so in that case there should be two references to XP in the boot menu. Am I understanding this correctly?

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    thanx a lot
    i edited the boot.ini fiile and it worked.

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