How to remove non-bootable xp drive on os selection screen

I have a non-bootable xp drive which shows up as a selection on my os startup selection screen that I want to delete since it can't be used.
In xp it also shows up in the boot camp control panel under startup disks along w/ my bootable xp drive and osx drive.
I was going to edit the boot.ini file but it doesn't seem to show up there, see my boot.ini file below:
[boot loader]
timeout=3
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional 3GB" /noexecute=optin/ 3GB /fastdetect
Anyone know how I can remove this phantom drive from my startup disk selection screen?

In my case I have an OSX boot drive, an additional dedicated BC drive running XP and 2 additional drives I use for backing up and storage. All 4 drives are internal for what it's worth. My "phantom" drive was one of my backup drives.
What I did was transfer the files I wanted to keep on my "phantom" drive over to another drive. Went into DiskUtility erased the "phantom" drive and then reformatted the drive, transferred my info back onto it and was finished. I probably could have skipped the erasing but did it anyway.
Note, I did this to a secondary backup drive which kept appearing on my boot screen and was annoying me. It started showing up on my boot selection screen after I had tested a restore of a clone I had made and then erased the drive after I saw that the clone was viable. I did not do this w/a BC partition of my primary hard drive so I'm not sure how this would work in that situation.

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