Two Boot Menus

[clmlbx]

I have three partitions . c,d, and e . I have windows 2000 installed on c and windows xp media center edition on e: .Now i formatted e and then installed vista rc-1 (5600) on it . Now when i start computer i get two boot menus :-

1 . Earlier version of windows
2 . vista

pressing enter on vista start vista but if i press enter on earlier verasion windows to start windows 2000 .It leads me to another boot menu .Which is

1 . windows xp media center edition
2 . windows 2000 professional

pressing enter windows 2000 it starts it . I TRIED PRESSING ENTER ON WINDOWS XP MEDIA CENTER EDITION IT HANGED ON MY COMPUTER.

BUT THE PROBLEM IS IT IS SHOWING TWO BOOT MENUS AND WINDOWS XP MEDIA CENTER EDITION WHEN IT IS NOT INSTALLED ON THE COMPUTER .

 

[SE><IE]

check out your boot.ini file.

 

[Vishal Gupta]

1.) Open C:\Boot.ini file in Notepad (It'll be HIDDEN And Read-only).
2.) Remove the line saying "windows xp media center edition" and make sure to set "WIndows 2000" as DEFAULT.
3.) Also set Timeout to 0

 

[~Phenom~]

me too facing after trying vista beta 2.

my boot.ini file reads this:

;
;Warning: Boot.ini is used on Windows XP and earlier operating systems.
;Warning: Use BCDEDIT.exe to modify Windows Vista boot options.
;
[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 /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN
c:\ ="Microsoft Windows"



what to do???

 

[Vishal Gupta]

Just either change timeout to 0 OR remove the line c:\ ="Microsoft Windows"

 

[dennisntstar]

1)Open msconfig(type msconfig on run) and go to boot.ini
2)Check all boot paths
3)If the os does'nt exist it will say that invalid path.Delete the one with invalid path
4)Reboot

 

[SE><IE]

Can anybody tell why the double boot menu was being shown?
He selected "Vista" from the first bot-menu and then he was shown another boot menu. Any trick to show nested boot-menus. I don't think so though.

@clmlbx: can you post your earlier boot-menu?