Two XP's on start-up menu??

[JTH]

I have been having some problems with XP recently and have ended up re-installing the OS several times. I am fairly happy with my latest install except that when I start up my computer I get an XP boot up menu that asks whether I want to load:

Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition or
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition

I'm assuming its because there are two XP partitions on the drive?? I thought I overwrote the old XP when I installed the newest XP but I obviously didn't. How can I remedy this problem and if it's a case of formatting the entire disk and starting again how do I do a COMPLETE format? Fdisk?

Thanks, JTH

P.S. This is unrelated but does anyone know a good partition program that will do the job of something like Partition Magic but for free?

[patrickt]

Control panel-system-advanced. Under system startup click on "Edit" and you should see the script for booting. Delete one of the Windows XP Home entries. I don't think it makes any difference which one but I'd do the second one.

[Markoman01027]

JTH,

You boot up into XP setup, and delete the partition you want. The partition you deleted will become unallocated space, and you can use that space to create another partition using the create partition option. Then you install the OS onto that partition.

If you completely want to start over, then just get yourself a zerofill utility and zerofill the hard drive, but deleting both partitions and making 1 single partition or two partitions and installing an OS on one will do the trick.

[kram 2.0]

Partitioning? I would think the best partitioning program is done by hand.

kram