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Dave
I setup my computer with two XP-Pro installations managed by Bootmagic,
as follows...
Partition1 500Mb For use by Bootmagic FAT32
Partition2 30Gb Xp Pro 'Internet' NTFS
Partition3 30Gb Xp Pro 'Clean' NTFS
Partition4 95Gb 'Drive D:' NTFS
'Drive D:' is visible to both OS's
The 'Internet' installation became corrupt so I re-installed XP Pro over
the top of it. On rebooting, Bootmagic was disabled (as expected) and
the usual OS Multiboot Menu appeared. I assumed the second option to be
my 'Clean' OS, and continued to setup the first option as my new
'Internet' OS. So far so good...
When I tried to reboot into my 'Clean' OS, I got a message saying "
Cannot load user profiles for this user, loading defaults instead".
When I looked at the installed software, I saw all the programs from the
'Internet' OS instead of the 'Clean' OS?? I guessed this might be
because Bootmagic was not being used to hide the partitions properly(?).
I enabled Bootmagic,rebooted, used the familiar BM Menu to select the
second OS, and was then presented with the XP Multiboot Menu? Choosing
the second option got me back to the XP installation with the wrong
programs...
I know there are two XP installations.
Can anyone please tell me what's the easiest(QUICKEST!) way to get them
both working again WITHOUT re-formatting?
If you need more details, please ask...
message posted to:-
alt.os.windows-xp
microsoft.public.windowsxp.configuration_manage
uk.comp.os.ms-windows
as follows...
Partition1 500Mb For use by Bootmagic FAT32
Partition2 30Gb Xp Pro 'Internet' NTFS
Partition3 30Gb Xp Pro 'Clean' NTFS
Partition4 95Gb 'Drive D:' NTFS
'Drive D:' is visible to both OS's
The 'Internet' installation became corrupt so I re-installed XP Pro over
the top of it. On rebooting, Bootmagic was disabled (as expected) and
the usual OS Multiboot Menu appeared. I assumed the second option to be
my 'Clean' OS, and continued to setup the first option as my new
'Internet' OS. So far so good...
When I tried to reboot into my 'Clean' OS, I got a message saying "
Cannot load user profiles for this user, loading defaults instead".
When I looked at the installed software, I saw all the programs from the
'Internet' OS instead of the 'Clean' OS?? I guessed this might be
because Bootmagic was not being used to hide the partitions properly(?).
I enabled Bootmagic,rebooted, used the familiar BM Menu to select the
second OS, and was then presented with the XP Multiboot Menu? Choosing
the second option got me back to the XP installation with the wrong
programs...
I know there are two XP installations.
Can anyone please tell me what's the easiest(QUICKEST!) way to get them
both working again WITHOUT re-formatting?
If you need more details, please ask...
message posted to:-
alt.os.windows-xp
microsoft.public.windowsxp.configuration_manage
uk.comp.os.ms-windows