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Before Windows starts up, I have to select which OS, even though they are the same...
I recently, tried to clone my old HDD onto a larger one. After it cloned everything, before Windows could start up it made me select which OS i wanted to use. Both OSs are exactly the same one, Windows XP, and make absolutely no difference between the one I select. What can I do here? Someone recommended to me to work through the problem by running msconfig, but every time i try and run it through run, the hour glass shows up, then goes away and nothing happens.
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09-06-2008, 12:21 PM
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Re: Before Windows starts up, I have to select which OS, even though they are the sam
In safe mode, Try this . . Click on Start . . Run . . type msconfig . . click on the Boot Ini tab and click on Check all boot paths . . if it comes back with one is invalid, click Fix invalid boot paths
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09-06-2008, 03:24 PM
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Re: Before Windows starts up, I have to select which OS, even though they are the sam
Here's the quick fix...
Right click My Computer (desktop icon) Advanced (tab) -> Startup and Recovery - Settings (button) -------------------------------------------------------------- Startup and Recovery (dialoge box) System startup Default operating system: "Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=option *** Uncheck Time to display list of operating systems Click OK and OK, and you're done. -------------------------------------------------------------- This part is optional *** Here you can select the default drive you want to boot. Tip1: You can click Edit to see which drive is being used as the default drive default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0 )rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" this is the master drive multi(0)disk(0) rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" this is the slave drive Tip2: You can also edit the text field to something more descriptive like: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP cloned backup Sept2008"
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