Identifying and removing failed Installations

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I have 2 failed installations and 1 good 1 on my system, so every time my PC
Crashes and reboots (XP-Hooray) it fails to complete the reboot because the
good installation is the last one in the list. One of the other
installations has an identical name SO:

How do I remove the bad installs?

How do I identify the bad install from the good for the 2 that have the same
name?
 
IainMac said:
I have 2 failed installations and 1 good 1 on my system, so every time my PC
Crashes and reboots (XP-Hooray) it fails to complete the reboot because the
good installation is the last one in the list. One of the other
installations has an identical name SO:

How do I remove the bad installs?

How do I identify the bad install from the good for the 2 that have the same
name?
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If your system regularly crashes and reboots, and you have two bad
installations on the drive, then your system has hardware or driver
problems, not an XP problem per se.

Run msconfig from Start | Run. On the boot.ini tab choose "Check all
Boot Paths". It should find the invalid ones and offer to delete them.

If that doesn't work edit the boot.ini manually. Right click My
Computer | Properties | Advanced | Startup and Recovery - Settings | Edit.
 
Thanks for the tip - that wil help.

You are right, the problem is a driver/hardware one that XP cannot identify,
so in the meantime I need to be able to reboot on crash for timers to be
acted upon.

I have a feeling it may be time for a hardware rebuild actually...
 
IainMac said:
Thanks for the tip - that wil help.

You are right, the problem is a driver/hardware one that XP cannot identify,
so in the meantime I need to be able to reboot on crash for timers to be
acted upon.

I have a feeling it may be time for a hardware rebuild actually...

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You're welcome. Good luck.
 
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