Fix for 2 Boot Menus When Dual Booting With Another Operation Systems

By SoftwareTipsPalace.com | Date: September 16, 2006

Instructions

Level: Advanced

This will get you down to only 1 boot screen. It is really easy: On our system our main drive has two partitions. One for Windows XP and the other for Windows Vista.

Our Windows XP installation is on C: and our Windows Vista installation is on F: We copied the F:\Windows\System32\winload.exe (Vista Installation) file to
C:\Windows\System32 (XP Installation). Then we edited the boot.ini file as follows:

Original boot.ini:
[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition" /FASTDETECT /NOEXECUTE=ALWAYSOFF
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows Longhorn"
/NOEXECUTE=ALWAYSOFF /FASTDETECT /USENEWLOADER

New Boot.ini:
[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition" /FASTDETECT /NOEXECUTE=ALWAYSOFF /USENEWLOADER
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows Longhorn"
/NOEXECUTE=ALWAYSOFF /FASTDETECT /USENEWLOADER

As you can see we just added the /USENEWLOADER switch to the Windows XP Installation.

Note: Doing this may cause a code 10 error with Asus SCSI cards using LSI53C875 drivers.