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Technical Help & Discussion => Self Building, Upgrading & General Hardware Help => Topic started by: roaddogg on January 18, 2003, 21:14

Title: upgrading with windows xp
Post by: roaddogg on January 18, 2003, 21:14
hi everyone
this is the first time i'm using this,i upgraded my pc
i had before
733 mhz,20 gig hard drive
and now i changed the motherboard,cpu,and hard drive
i have a pentium 4 2 ghz,80 gb hard drive

now for some reason i keep getting in dos
a dual-boot message
if i want windows xp or win98
i elimanated win98 and have only xp running,but the dual-boot menu still appears,
and now my pc takes 3 times as much to load windows xp,i mean isnt it suppose to be faster with pentium 4?
i have 256 ddr ram

thks
regards
Title: Re:upgrading with windows xp
Post by: Simon on January 18, 2003, 21:26
:welcome: Roaddogg!

I'm no expert in boot up problems, which it sounds like what you've got, but one of our techies will be along soon to help you.

In the mean time feel free to browse the rest of the forum, and join in if you wish!
Title: Re:upgrading with windows xp
Post by: Clive on January 18, 2003, 23:44
Adept has just walked in and I'm sure he will be able to help you.
Title: Re:upgrading with windows xp
Post by: Adept on January 18, 2003, 23:49
Hi roaddogg  :welcome:

What you have to do is edit a file called Boot.ini and remove the offending Windows 98 menu item.

First of all I'll need you to do this:-

Open up Control Panel from your Start Button
Choose the System icon
From the System Properties window, choose the Advanced tab.
Click the Settings button on the Startup and Recovery frame
Click the Edit button

Your boot.ini file will then appear in Notepad.

If you could copy and paste the contents back to me, I'd be happy to tell you what changes to make  ;)
Title: Re:upgrading with windows xp
Post by: Adept on January 18, 2003, 23:50
Quote from: Clive on January 18, 2003, 23:44

Adept has just walked in and I'm sure he will be able to help you.


Get it right Clive.

Adept has just walked crawled in and he will be able to help you  ::) ;D
Title: Re:upgrading with windows xp
Post by: Clive on January 18, 2003, 23:54
We don't mind how you got here Adept.  I think that a substantial amount of alcohol has been consumed amongst pc-pals tonight as we have had a party here.  ;D
Title: Re:upgrading with windows xp
Post by: Simon on January 18, 2003, 23:55
Not :drunk:  again Adept!!  :heehee: :gofor:
Title: Re:upgrading with windows xp
Post by: Adept on January 18, 2003, 23:55
Hic ;)
Title: Re:upgrading with windows xp
Post by: bat69 on January 19, 2003, 00:39
ohh noooo, there's usually something that follows a 'HIC' ....
Title: Re:upgrading with windows xp
Post by: roaddogg on January 19, 2003, 02:49
[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" /fastdetect
C:="Microsoft Windows"
that would be the message i get
hope theres a way
thks
Title: Re:upgrading with windows xp
Post by: Sandra on January 19, 2003, 03:49
According to this:

http://lists.gpick.com/pages/Windows_XP_KBs.htm

Which has a link to this:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;289022 (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;289022)

It appears to be set correctly  ???
There doesnt appear to be any mention of a second OS  ???

You could try this:

Setting the Time Out
At the command prompt, type: bootcfg /timeout# Where # specifies the time in seconds after which default operating system will be loaded.

And set the timeout to a lower figure or possibly even try 0 so that it boots straight into XP   :-*
Title: Re:upgrading with windows xp
Post by: Adept on January 19, 2003, 11:04
Hi roaddogg, just remove the

Code: [Select]
C:="Microsoft Windows"

bit and save the file.

Your PC should then boot straight into XP.
Title: Re:upgrading with windows xp
Post by: Camstop on January 19, 2003, 11:22
:yoops:
Title: Re:upgrading with windows xp
Post by: roaddogg on January 19, 2003, 21:20
it worked!!!! :D
Title: Re:upgrading with windows xp
Post by: Simon on January 19, 2003, 21:23
:welldone:  Adept!!  :clever:
Title: Re:upgrading with windows xp
Post by: Adept on January 19, 2003, 21:35
Great news Roaddogg ;D

If you can manage to do that, I'm sure you'll be able to help some of our other members with their PC problems ;) Please stick around for a while and join in with our community :thanks: