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Formatting: A Kink

  • 22-09-2008 7:05pm
    #1
    Shryke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭


    I've had to format and reinstall XP due to a pretty bad viral infection, I had a thread about it on boards a while back. Anyway I haven't had to any of this stuff in a real long time and I'm feeling a little like an idiot.
    I thought everything went perfectly. XP was installed. Set up user profiles and all of that. But now I find that on start up I'm being given the option of 'Windows XP Home Edition' or ...'Windows XP Home Edition'.
    The first is the actual OS while the second seems to be for the install disc? Did I do a funny when I was at the partition stage or what? I'm not sure what the cause of this is. It's really annoying me and formatting takes a good while so I thought I'd check here first before I go back at it.


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  • #2
    cml387
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,495 ✭✭✭cml387


    sounds like you have two installations of xp, old and new.

    Before you formatted, did you delete the partions and satrt from scratch so to speak?


  • #3
    Shryke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    I have two drives. The second has no system files, just music and other media. The first I deleted all of the partitions and then formatted the maximum amount of space I could and installed XP on it. I didn't touch the second drive and don't think that matters but I might as well mention it. I'm 99% sure that I deleted all of the partitions on the first drive.


  • #4
    kmb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,723 ✭✭✭kmb


    hi,
    right click my computer,properties,advanced,start up and recovery,settings,put first option(time to display) on what you want so you wont see it,perphaps one second.

    regards

    kieran


  • #5
    Soundman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭Soundman


    START > Run > mssconfig and hit enter

    Go to the Boot tab and you should see a button to check boot paths or something similar. Click it and let it check. Click OK and close msconfig then reboot.

    Did this work?


  • #6
    Gadgetman496
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,408 ✭✭✭Gadgetman496


    It looks like you have a double entry in your "Boot.ini" file.

    Start
    Right click "My Computer"
    Choose "Properties"
    Choose "Advanced" TAB
    Click on the "Settings" button in the "Startup and Recovery" section.
    Click on the "Edit" button
    Remove the offending entry (line referring to the obsolete OS)



    -

    "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."



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  • #7
    Shryke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    Thanks for the help.


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