I had to delete/reinstall Windows XP Home on my brother's PC. In the process, I deleted the existing partition and installed a clean version of Windows on the non-partitioned drive. Now, at startup, a boot menu appears, containing two (2) "Windows XP Home" entries. Since the PC has only one non-partitioned hard drive and only one operating system installed, how can I safely eliminate the boot menu from appearing at startup? Thanks, Ray

"I deleted the existing partition" did you create a new partition and format it? To do the install, you must have created a new partition, it sounds like you didn't format it and now you have 2 installs. If this is the case, you might want to start over by deleting the existing partition(s), creating a new partition & doing a full format. larry

A side note: Dell PCs normally have two partitions. The windows partition and a small partition of about 10gb for the restore image. If you are not using a Dell CD for the install, but are using a Microsoft CD, you need to delete both partitions. FWIW to XP users: When you click on the 'Command Prompt' you are just causing the 'Command prompt' to be displayed. This prompt gives you access to NTVDM.EXE, the 'NT Virtual DOS Manager'.

larryf215: When Windows asked where I wanted it installed, it showed a partition 0 and a c: drive. I deleted partition 0 and indicated that I wanted Windows installed on the C: drive. It then formatted the hard drive and began installing Windows.

You edit the boot.ini and remove the inactive entry. boot.ini is a read only hidden file on c:\ you have to take the readonly attribute off to edit and save the file. google edit boot.ini for more info

aegis1: Yes. I deleted the smaller partition and installed Windows on the c: drive, using the original Dell installation CD.

wanderer: Will removing the inactive entry in the boot.ini file make the boot menu go away? I do not want the boot menu appearing at startup. Thanks.