XP in two drives!!! · DIGIT-ARC

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Guys..I've installed winxp in two partitions of my hd(in C:\ and in D:\)
Now during booting two options are coming as usual to select which os i need to boot.
Now what I want is to remove this delection and I want my pc to boot into D:\ directly....What I have to do for that?..

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Open the 'boot.ini' file in your C-drive and remove the first entry found in the 'Operating Systems' section.Also set the 'default' value to the second entry.
Before editing make a backup of the boot.ini file just in case you mess up.

start-->>right click my computer-->>properties-->>advance-->>startup and recovery-->>settings

startup and recovery windows page will open-->>edit

Boot.ini notepad page will open.

There you will find something like this:

Code:

[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

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

delete this line:

Code:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

save and close notepad

Now in startup and recovery windows-->>default operating system-->>
select windows XP installed in C:\ drive

Time to display list of operating system-->>make it to zero seconds-->>OK-->>Apply -->>Ok

restart your system.
done

Just a doubt.
If i edit the text inside " " , then it shud appear as it is at boot time. But If we use A bit more words them its displayed incomplete at boot time, means some words ll be missing either from front or rear. Whys it so?

Also is there ny way we can add an image in background at this point[ by giving the file location or somethin in boot.ini].

Even a 256 colour image wud do.

aravind_n20 said:
Just a doubt.
If i edit the text inside " " , then it shud appear as it is at boot time. But If we use A bit more words them its displayed incomplete at boot time, means some words ll be missing either from front or rear. Whys it so?

Simple dear, Because word length is limit.

Also is there ny way we can add an image in background at this point[ by giving the file location or somethin in boot.ini].

Even a 256 colour image wud do.

I am scared, there is no way to add image as background during OS selection.
Yeah, you can have change image of login screen.

But sometimes if we use less characters than default, then also it happens. And sometines if we use many words without space in b/w them then it wud be accepted. So its not coz of word limit i think.