How to uninstall incomplete XP installation

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emil_lam

Hi,

I have 2 XP Home installations in my computer, one completed
installation & one incomplete installation.

The XP copies were created with following steps:

1. Ran installation from installation floppies created by
WinXP_EN_HOM_BF.EXE downloaded from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...68-6e4f-471c-b455-bd5afee126d8&displaylang=en

2. Continued installation with XP Home CD (Simplified Chinese version).
From text mode output, files needed for installation copied to HD.
Click to expand...

3. XP installation auto rebooted PC. But I found the GUI display
unreadable due to mismatched language versions of installation programs
ran in 1 & 2 (my mistake, forgot to checked if correct language version
program downloaded).

4. Downloaded the needed installation program from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...FamilyID=e8fe6868-6e4f-471c-b455-bd5afee126d8
(Simplified Chinese version).

5. Restarted installation from floppies based on program downloaded at
4.

6. Completed installation of Simplified Chinese version XP Home.

7. Rebooted PC and found 2 XP HOME entries listed in start menu, both
called XP HOME. Choosing the 2nd entry in the list led me to the
incomplete XP Home installation program.

How can I remove the incomplete XP image ? I tried following "How to
Uninstall Windows XP upgrade in Recovery Console" steps listed
http://www.windowsreinstall.com/articles/windowsuninstalls/windowsXPupgradeuninstall.htm
but found the procedure couldn't be executed because osuninst.exe
couldn't be executed.
 
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Gene K

The easy way is: Start/Run/type "msconfig" [omitting the quote markers] and
click "OK"/when the System Configuration Utility opens, click the "BOOT.INI"
Tab/when that opens, click the "Check All Boot Paths" button/if any Boot
Path is flawed, the system will offer to remove it/let it.
Gene
 

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