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11-30-2009, 04:33 AM
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I'm seeing double
Right now I have two xp ops on my computer. When I start my computer it gives me two options, start with windows xp or start with windows xp. I don;t know how this happened but I want to get rid of the second one, how do I do this?
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11-30-2009, 07:51 AM
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Run msconfig On the BOOT.INI tab, click "Check all boot paths" - what is the result? |
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11-30-2009, 08:16 PM
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i clicked it and it says "it appears all BOOT.INI lines for Microsoft operating systems are OK."
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12-01-2009, 06:52 AM
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Looks like you installed XP twice. The best way to clean that up is start over - wipe and reinstall.
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12-01-2009, 10:50 AM
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You might want to try booting to the second option (the one that you don't want, presumably the non-default) and see if it goes anywhere. I've had this come up, and often the alternate option doesn't do anything anyway. I'm fairly certain that in my case it resulted from an aborted installation. In which case you can just delete that entry from the boot.ini.
Even if you do find that it leads to an alternate OS, you may just want to delete it from the boot.ini anyway, unless you really want that 5-10 GB of disk space back. Depending on your hard drive size, I guess. EDIT: I just re-read Post #3. Even in this case, you still might want to heed the second paragraph of my post.
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12-02-2009, 10:09 AM
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I have a little under 50 GB left in my 320 GB hard-drive so any more space would be great. I booted into it and it works, it's my old XP with all my settings still intact. When I installed xp again I thought it formatted my hard-drive but I guess not. I don't have my XP cd with me so I'm wondering is there a way i can get rid of that extra xp, I don't need anything from it so it's just taking up space.
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