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Can't remove orphaned OS from msconfig, still shows Selective Boot
This morning, I turned on my laptop and noticed it hung on the black screen for too long. I pressed the enter key, and the login screen finally popped up. Thinking it was a temporary issue, I rebooted it to check it out. Alas, I have to keep pressing the enter key whenever the black screen between the spinning wheel and the login screen comes up.
I found out that it was trying to multi-boot, when I saw a flicker of a image when I pressed enter. Naturally, this led me to msconfig.exe. I found out that there were actually two boot entries, and not one, which was making Windows ask me what version I wanted to choose.
Here's a screenshot:
You see, whenever I choose the second OS, and press delete, it would delete. But after I press OK, all changes are lost and whenever I go back to msconfig.exe, I still have the stupid OS there. I have already tried Safe Mode, so that's not the problem.
And it gets worse. I found out that msconfig.exe keeps defaulting to Selective Boot. Like the 2nd OS problem above, it changes, but when I press OK, it defaults back to Selective Boot and I can see it when I next launch msconfig.exe. I have also tested this in safe mode.
I also tried a combination of deleting methods - deleting it and then closing the window, deleting it and then pressing apply and then pressing OK, deleting it and pressing OK. None of it works.
Any ideas? I have also tried launching msconfig.exe as administrator, but it doesn't work.