I was dual booting win 2000 and xp then I removed 2000 but when my computer boots the message select the operating system to start still apears how do I get rid of this

You have answered your own question Here (https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/showthread.php?p=82856#post82856)

Just copy this in to your boot.ini file

[boot loader]
timeout=3
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

This covers XP Pro on C: drive

There u are Thanks It worked