windows XP Home reinstall issue

[Guest henren857]

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]

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

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> 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