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Recently (ie yesterday) I was replacing my old mother board and CPU with a new one, and for some unknown reason the boot files for XP Proffessional were corrupted in the process (power spike maybe?)

I reinstalled successfully, and everything works fine, except that the boot menu now has two different installations of Windows XP Proffessional, one which works fine and the other which leads to the blue screen of death.

Is there any way that I can remove that from the option select menu, or at least make the working one the top choice, so that don't have to mash the down key everytime I turn on my computer?


Thanks in advance

Hya Servus , welcome to PCHF.


Is the "second" OS only showing on the bootup menu? Or do you have two separete windows installs on there right now? If it is the last then i would just reinstall again. (Make sure you boot from the cd , don't install from within windows)

If it is the first then please post the content of youre boot.ini. Go to start/run type C:\boot.ini , press enter and copy the contents of the boot.ini that comes up to a post here please.

when you change hardware, such as motherboard, processor, and others it will cause problems with windows xp, as the old drivers for the old hardware are still installed, and obviously that wont work,

i think, but am not 100 percent sure, if you uninstall everything out of your device manager before you change the hardware, and then shut your pc off, change hardware and turn it on it should work, but i would double check to make sure im right.