Sooo....I have installed XP Pro several different times on various HDD in my main machine. I THINK (dangerous activity, there) that I have the Sata1.5 RAID the way I want it, but now, just after installing and partitioning the new 300 gb pata drive, I glommed onto a Sata 3.o at a real good price from Newegg....I also notice they have XP x64 (oem) at a decent price...Hmmm..what to do...

Anyways, here's the question: at the current time I have only ONE Windows installation running, but on boot up, the BIOS prompts me to choose from one of three..How do I get rid of these "artifacts" left from old installs.....short jumper J1 to clear CMOS? Flash the BIOS? Both?

Bonus Point Question: Is XP x64 any improvement (like $140 worth) over standard XP Pro?

Also, I'd like to "Pre-Thank" Cruze, AdairUSMC, Dizza and Robbie since they always help everyone in this forum so much and I'm almost certain they'll be right on this...

Quoted: I have XP Pro, and my screen shows a little different.. not sure if it is a Pro difference or not. But when you click on "Start Up and Recovery", I have this button that says "Edit", clicking that will allow you to edit the boot.ini file which hold records for any OS installs on your drives. When you edit the file, you will notice it orders them by the disk # and the partition #... simply delete the ones you don't want and close it and save it. Reboot, and things should be the way you want them. -d

I actually didn't find the win.ini files in system32, but the rigt click>properties>advanced>edit thing worked just fine...I even printed out the file to make sure I could rstore it in case of error....

Thanks again guys.