Delete second bootable 1

[kimtp]

Have two hard drives both have xp os. One with development files and the other without. I now want to have only one bootable drive. Changed D from primary to logical. How to get startup not to recognize the now non-bootable d drive?

Thanx.

Kim

 

[franklin97355]

Try the XP forum. There is a file in the root of the boot drive (I think) that you can modify to remove the old boot device.

 

[felixc]

Can you just tell the BIOS to not boot from D:?

 

[franklin97355]

No, the boot record is on the boot sector of the first hard drive and that is where you get a chance to name the drive to boot from.

 

[allteltec]

The file you will need to edit is the boot.ini, It is in the root of the first bootable partition (C the file is hiden and protected. Now if you screw up the boot.ini your system will not boot so use care. You can edit the boot.ini by right clicking My Computer and going to properties then Advanced then under Startup and Recovery click Settings then Edit. You can also go Run and CMD, CD\, attrib -r -s -h boot.ini, then copy boot.ini boot.old, backup are allways nice then edit boot.ini edit out the line to the snd. HD then +r +h boot.ini and if you change timeout=30 to timeout=0 it should not show the menu.

 

[kimtp]

Many thanx for the help. Got it resolved.