Boot Up Options .. Choosing which windows to use 1

[greyguy]

I have a machine with Win7 Home on the C drive. I have then installed Win7 Pro on the D drive. On boot up I can select which version to use.

I now want to eliminate that option screen and allow booting to the C drive automatically.

How do I get rid of that choice screen?

Any advice please?

 

[vacunita]

You can use the BCDedit.exe tool from the command line to change the boot loader, though you'll then have to manually remove any windows files you don't want.

Be careful not to format the C drive as both your operating systems are using it to boot from. If you format it, you loose the boot files for both.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709667(WS.10).aspx

There's also a graphic interface called EasyBCD if you don't want to muck around with the command line, and the bcdedit.exe parameters.



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[linney]

Have a look at the MsConfig tool too, look at the Boot Tab, you will find various options there including to delete the unwanted entry, or to set a default entry and a time out of zero seconds.

 

[greyguy]

Great! Thank you both very much.

 

[flyboytim]

I mostly use Linux now, but this machine started off with Vista, and I rapidly backgraded it to XP Pro.

What is a "C:\" drive, now? - I had XP pro installed on my "C:\" drive (sda1), then installed Windows 7 on another free partition on a second physical drive. Windows 7 believes it is located on the "C:\" drive (sdb1) and that the XP pro disk partition is the "D:\" drive.

I'm not confused, but windows seems to be.

 

[linney]

In a Dual Boot situation is is not unusual for which ever operating system you boot to be loaded as a C: drive by Windows. It (the same drive) may therefor have a different drive letter when viewed from another loaded operating system which itself then be using the C: drive "drive letter".

If you give your drives actual names it becomes less confusing as the name will be consistent despite which operating system you boot into.

Manage your drive letters in a dual-boot configuration

http://www.vista4beginners.com/Change-drive-letters-dual-boot-configuration

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=d...&ie=&oe=&redir_esc=&ei=wSelS4rGC9KHkAW64KDXCA

Overview of PNP enumeration and hard disk drive letter assignments in Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;825668&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH