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FormattedWinXp still in select OS screen
Name: Amber Date: May 17, 2002 at 06:05:34 Pacific
Comment:
I need some help, First I installed win2k on my harddisk with 3 partitions. Win2k on c drive, d drive as storage and e drive was for windows XP. I formatted it off in the Win2k computer management. Therefore my E drive is empty but I still have to select the OS at startup. How do I remove the XP selection from the startup and just boot up to win2k automatically?
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