MSconfig boot is blank, but still boots. Need to remove a boot menu entry.

Hello,
I have three boot menu entries that appear when I restart my pc.  The last one I would like to remove, as it isn't valid anymore.  When I go into msconfig, boot (tab), there isn't any entries in it.  I tried recreating another administrator
profile, but that didn't help.  I tried using EASYBCD but I get the error message: the boot configuration data store could not be opened. The system cannot find the file specified. I searched for a bcd file, but didn't find any.  Upon reboot it shows
three entries and does boot to windows, but I would like to remove the third, invalid, entry.
Thanks,
Mark

I have windows 7, MS Dart and windows xp installed.  I uninstalled windows xp over a year ago. I booted into dart and ran startup repair.  It fixed it real good...no entries like before, but this time not starting at all.  missing boot\bcd. 
I tried putting in windows 7 cd and running repair, but didn't work.  Decided it was time to reload windows 7, as all of my data is on another drive, it has been years since I did it anyway. My cloned/backup drive got into windows, but blue screened and
did the same thing.  I wonder if I got a virus or possibly a registry cleaning program did this?
thanks,
Mark

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