> How do I ensure that I boot from my old SATA C:, only, and eliminate the 
> "choice screen" on bootup?  (and delete the XP OS files on E:)

  That boot menu is derived from entries in a hidden/read-only file called 
"boot.ini".  I'm not sure what an entry for a SATA drive there looks like, 
but if you can't tell either, you could post the contents of the file back 
here.

David Gillett


On 19 Oct 2006 at 20:29, Cal Peters wrote:

> Hi all....
> I recently somehow hosed my WinXP OS files, necessitating a reinstall 
> b/c that was the only way I could get it to even boot.   I don't seem to 
> have lost any data files....but of course I'm having to
> reinstall *everything*.  Sucks....but at least I don't seem to have lost 
> anything.....
> I'm going to take this one step at a time......
> 
> Background: 
> My 40G sata (partitioned in to C: and D:) C: was my boot drive.
> My 120G eide (partitioned into E and F:) was for backups and data files, 
> basically. 
> When I did the reinstall, I screwed up and installed XP onto E:  Bad 
> move....
> The only way I could think of to make my SATA drive my boot drive again 
> was to pull the power plug and reinstall back onto my (old, SATA) C:.
> That worked....but now I get a message when I boot asking which copy of 
> XP I want to start.
> 
> 1st question: 
> How do I ensure that I boot from my old SATA C:, only, and eliminate the 
> "choice screen" on bootup?  (and delete the XP OS files on E:)
> 
> Thanks!!!
> 
> Cal Peters  
> Grandville, MI

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