To cut the story short, I now have a dual boot (identical OS in 1 partition)
in my Compaq labtop (xp home). Rather then to do a clean installation of
system recovery, now, how can I delete the 'accidental' OS and only have the
original installation in it. Thanks for your time

wlfreddy wrote:
> To cut the story short, I now have a dual boot (identical OS in 1
> partition) in my Compaq labtop (xp home). Rather then to do a clean
> installation of system recovery, now, how can I delete the
> 'accidental' OS and only have the original installation in it.
> Thanks for your time

Edit the BOOT.INI.

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wlfreddy wrote:

> To cut the story short, I now have a dual boot (identical OS in 1
> partition) in my Compaq labtop (xp home). Rather then to do a clean
> installation of system recovery, now, how can I delete the
> 'accidental' OS and only have the original installation in it. Thanks
> for your time

"I have two installations of XP on the same partition" -
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/xpfaq.html#20

Malke
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Start > Run > msconfig > Boot.ini tab > Check all boot paths

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"wlfreddy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:3A7D9536-9233-48A2-B449-(E-Mail Removed)...
: To cut the story short, I now have a dual boot (identical OS in 1
partition)
: in my Compaq labtop (xp home). Rather then to do a clean installation of
: system recovery, now, how can I delete the 'accidental' OS and only have
the
: original installation in it. Thanks for your time

At the moment the boot.ini is as follows:-
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS.0
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS.0="Microsoft Windows XP
Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

so just to counter check, I should have this as the new boot.ini . That is
to say I want to boot up as when I first got the labtop

[boot loader]
timeout=0
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

....... please confirm the above is correct, thanks

"Malke" wrote:

> wlfreddy wrote:
>
> > To cut the story short, I now have a dual boot (identical OS in 1
> > partition) in my Compaq labtop (xp home). Rather then to do a clean
> > installation of system recovery, now, how can I delete the
> > 'accidental' OS and only have the original installation in it. Thanks
> > for your time
>
> "I have two installations of XP on the same partition" -
> http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/xpfaq.html#20
>
> Malke
> --
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
>

Fyi, I got it working now. Thanks for all your help.

"Ayush" wrote:

> Start > Run > msconfig > Boot.ini tab > Check all boot paths
>
> --
> > Ayush [ Be ''?'' Happy ]
>
> For any query, search > www.Google.com
> Want to know about a term > http://en.wikipedia.org
>
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>
> "wlfreddy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:3A7D9536-9233-48A2-B449-(E-Mail Removed)...
> : To cut the story short, I now have a dual boot (identical OS in 1
> partition)
> : in my Compaq labtop (xp home). Rather then to do a clean installation of
> : system recovery, now, how can I delete the 'accidental' OS and only have
> the
> : original installation in it. Thanks for your time
>
>
>