duel boot system menue

I have a duel operating system on my machine. windows me and windows
xp home edition. each operating system has been set up on their own hard
drive. for some reason the default is set up to run windows me. to that
end I have a couple of questions reguarding the first menue of a duel boot
system that allows you to choose which operating system you wish to use.
the first question i have is if there a way to change which operating
system is the default? the second question is if there is a way to clean
out some of the old os options that no longer exist in the menue. i have
tried various things with no luck. any help would be apriciated


tia

greg

 

My computer/Right click/Properties/Advanced/Startup and
Recovery/Settings/Default operating System field.

What operating options and which menu?

 

Since you have one OS per physical hard drive (not virtual) if your BIOS is new enough you can
switch between boot drives there.

 

that first part worked really well, thanks. as far as my second question
what has happened is i had a verson of xp pro installed, i have since
reformated that drive and put in xp home. however the option is still
there on the list. the menue i'm refering to is the menue that has you
select the operating system you wish to use.

thanks

greg