Hello...

Re: Acer TravelMate 2480

I deleted all partitions, formatted disk from FAT32 to NTFS and did a clean
install of XP Home SP2. I then installed a pared down version of Acer 2480
drivers and software because I hate junk.

Everything is okay except on startup I now have to "choose" one of 3 Home
versions listed to boot from? (Notebook was previously owned).

To doublecheck, I booted from XP installation disk and only 1 partition with
1 XP install are shown.

How can previous installations of Home still be present on a newly
formatted, cleanly installed disk?

Did you do all this by booting from the winxp cd or did you use a third
party tool?
And if your only purpose was to convert from fat to ntfs why was it not done
within the current installation.
Just as junk could have been uninstalled

"proserose" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:70957C48-99C1-4909-8B47-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello...
>
> Re: Acer TravelMate 2480
>
> I deleted all partitions, formatted disk from FAT32 to NTFS and did a
> clean
> install of XP Home SP2. I then installed a pared down version of Acer 2480
> drivers and software because I hate junk.
>
> Everything is okay except on startup I now have to "choose" one of 3 Home
> versions listed to boot from? (Notebook was previously owned).
>
> To doublecheck, I booted from XP installation disk and only 1 partition
> with
> 1 XP install are shown.
>
> How can previous installations of Home still be present on a newly
> formatted, cleanly installed disk?

It's something that sometimes happens, the boot.ini file can sometimes
survive a format. The old installations are no longer on the disk, just
edit the boot.ini file and remove the invalid paths, or use the Msconfig
tool and have it check for and remove invalid boot.ini paths.

John

proserose wrote:
> Hello...
>
> Re: Acer TravelMate 2480
>
> I deleted all partitions, formatted disk from FAT32 to NTFS and did a clean
> install of XP Home SP2. I then installed a pared down version of Acer 2480
> drivers and software because I hate junk.
>
> Everything is okay except on startup I now have to "choose" one of 3 Home
> versions listed to boot from? (Notebook was previously owned).
>
> To doublecheck, I booted from XP installation disk and only 1 partition with
> 1 XP install are shown.
>
> How can previous installations of Home still be present on a newly
> formatted, cleanly installed disk?

John John, thank you so much. I was going crazy and your solution was so
simple. Best to you.

"John John (MVP)" wrote:

> It's something that sometimes happens, the boot.ini file can sometimes
> survive a format. The old installations are no longer on the disk, just
> edit the boot.ini file and remove the invalid paths, or use the Msconfig
> tool and have it check for and remove invalid boot.ini paths.
>
> John
>
> proserose wrote:
> > Hello...
> >
> > Re: Acer TravelMate 2480
> >
> > I deleted all partitions, formatted disk from FAT32 to NTFS and did a clean
> > install of XP Home SP2. I then installed a pared down version of Acer 2480
> > drivers and software because I hate junk.
> >
> > Everything is okay except on startup I now have to "choose" one of 3 Home
> > versions listed to boot from? (Notebook was previously owned).
> >
> > To doublecheck, I booted from XP installation disk and only 1 partition with
> > 1 XP install are shown.
> >
> > How can previous installations of Home still be present on a newly
> > formatted, cleanly installed disk?
>
>

You're welcome.

John

proserose wrote:

> John John, thank you so much. I was going crazy and your solution was so
> simple. Best to you.
>
> "John John (MVP)" wrote:
>
>
>>It's something that sometimes happens, the boot.ini file can sometimes
>>survive a format. The old installations are no longer on the disk, just
>>edit the boot.ini file and remove the invalid paths, or use the Msconfig
>>tool and have it check for and remove invalid boot.ini paths.
>>
>>John
>>
>>proserose wrote:
>>
>>>Hello...
>>>
>>>Re: Acer TravelMate 2480
>>>
>>>I deleted all partitions, formatted disk from FAT32 to NTFS and did a clean
>>>install of XP Home SP2. I then installed a pared down version of Acer 2480
>>>drivers and software because I hate junk.
>>>
>>>Everything is okay except on startup I now have to "choose" one of 3 Home
>>>versions listed to boot from? (Notebook was previously owned).
>>>
>>>To doublecheck, I booted from XP installation disk and only 1 partition with
>>>1 XP install are shown.
>>>
>>>How can previous installations of Home still be present on a newly
>>>formatted, cleanly installed disk?
>>
>>