Guest henren857 Posted August 24, 2008 Posted August 24, 2008 Hello All, i recently deleted the partitions on my 2 installed hard drives and reformatted and reinstalled Windows XP home, It only installed on one of the 2 drives. the other did not show up on "MY COMPUTER". So I did a reinstall and only picked that drive to add a partition and install. Windows then reformatted the first install then installed XP home on both drives. Now when my computer starts it shows 2 Windows XP home loads and asks which one I want to start. I have reinstalled before and never had this problem. Is there a way to fix this without reinstalling? I believe it is using up memory this way or am I wrong? Please HELLLLLLLLLLLLP. -- thanks, hendo
Guest JS Posted August 24, 2008 Posted August 24, 2008 Re: windows XP Home reinstall issue You're not using up memory but the unwanted install does take up disk space. First use Windows Explorer/Properties and change the drive label on the partition/install you still want to use to: KEEP and the unwanted partition label to: NOKEEP Then use 'Disk Management' to reformat the partition that has the NOKEEP label. The unwanted install of XP is now gone. Then Start/Run and enter: msconfig Click on the 'BOOT.INI' tab Click on the 'Check All Boot Paths' button. You should see a message "It appears that the following line in the BOOT.INI file does not refer to a valid operating system:" and "Would you like to remove it from the BOOT.INI file" Click: 'Yes' Reboot and you should no longer have the problem of two copies of XP Home. JS "henren857" <henren857@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:9FE76BD1-5792-466D-B166-DB90FA6F46EB@microsoft.com... > Hello All, > i recently deleted the partitions on my 2 installed hard drives and > reformatted and reinstalled Windows XP home, It only installed on one of > the > 2 drives. the other did > not show up on "MY COMPUTER". So I did a reinstall and only picked that > drive to add a partition and install. Windows then reformatted the first > install then installed > XP home on both drives. Now when my computer starts it shows 2 Windows XP > home loads and asks which one I want to start. I have reinstalled before > and > never > had this problem. Is there a way to fix this without reinstalling? I > believe > it is using > up memory this way or am I wrong? Please HELLLLLLLLLLLLP. > -- > thanks, > hendo
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