Choice of operating system at startup

[SamDust]

Hello!

A question hangs over me and I need your expert opinion

I have two hard disk, call the disc A and B. A, there is Windows XP PRO, B, Windows XP Home Edition. I remove the disc B of my because, I need the A, with Windows XP Pro.

My question, What would be the way to choose the disk with Windows XP disk on startup? In fact every time he offers me to choose between the two operating systems, so that only the hard wired ??!!!! A

Thank you very much.

[Calvin K]

be careful, you can edit the boot.ini file at the root of the C: and remove the unwanted Operating systems choice. make sure you are removing the one that you do not want.

[Solomon]

you edit the file boot.ini the disc and you remove the lines corresponding to the disc and you b verifies that the default line corresponds to A
your boot ini file should look like this:

[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" / noexecute = optin / fastdetect

[Devasis]

Make sure you know which one is good to remove; if you don't you could be locked out of your system!

Using the msconfig utility (Start->Run, type msconfig), goto the BOOT.INI tab and change the time out to 10seconds. Rename one of the "Microsoft Windows..bla" to something different. When you boot up, take note of which one is booting; then enter into the msconfig utility again and remove the line that corresponds to the OS that wasn't chosen.