Multiple installations

[Guest]

I was hoping someone could help me with a problem I have had with multiple
installs. I had XP installed on a HD and then installed MCE on the other. I
deleted all of the files from the first HD (I now know I shouldn't have) but
it still has the option on initial boot of choosing the XP installation. In
trying to fix this I started to reinstall XP but then decided against it so
now I have the choice between two installs and one partial install, only one
of which works. Does anyone know how I can delete these options from the
initial black screen options of operating system.


Thanks
Glen

 

[Rich Barry]

Glen, rt click on MyComputer>select Properties>Advanced>Startup and
Recovery-Settings>Under System Startup change the time from 30sec to 1 sec
next to Time to display list of operating systems

 

[Michael Stevens]

I was hoping someone could help me with a problem I have had with
multiple installs. I had XP installed on a HD and then installed MCE
on the other. I deleted all of the files from the first HD (I now
know I shouldn't have) but it still has the option on initial boot of
choosing the XP installation. In trying to fix this I started to
reinstall XP but then decided against it so now I have the choice
between two installs and one partial install, only one of which
works. Does anyone know how I can delete these options from the
initial black screen options of operating system.


Thanks
Glen

See if this helps.
Click on or copy and paste the link below into your web browser address box.
I have two installations of Windows/Windows XP on the same partition.......
http://michaelstevenstech.com/xpfaq.html#two
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[Ron Martell]

I was hoping someone could help me with a problem I have had with multiple
installs. I had XP installed on a HD and then installed MCE on the other. I
deleted all of the files from the first HD (I now know I shouldn't have) but
it still has the option on initial boot of choosing the XP installation. In
trying to fix this I started to reinstall XP but then decided against it so
now I have the choice between two installs and one partial install, only one
of which works. Does anyone know how I can delete these options from the
initial black screen options of operating system.


Thanks
Glen

Delete all of the files from your aborted partial install.

Then use Start - Run - MSCONFIG, go to the BOOT.INI tab and click on
the "Check all boot paths" button.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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Microsoft MVP
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