Why two profiles?

[Khers Sefid]

I had Windows XP Home Editon on my machine, and I repartinoned my Hard
drive (so that would delete every thing on my Hard Drive I thought)
and then I installed Windows XP Professional on my machine. After
installation every time I boot the system it gives my two choices:

Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition

Why is this? How can I get rid of the second option?

(for you information:
If I choose Home Editon I get this error message:
Windows could not satrt because the following file is missing or
corrupt:
<Windows root>\system32\hal.dll )

But Windows XP Professional goes fine

my question is how can I get rid of the second option at the reboot?

thanks in advance
khers

 

[Guest]

Hi

There's an entry in your boot.ini file pointing to xp home

need to make sure your boot.ini is similar to thi

[boot loader
timeout=3
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW
[operating systems
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetec

if you have xp home it should be under [operating systems] you need to remove those lines or comment them out

lava


----- Khers Sefid wrote: ----

I had Windows XP Home Editon on my machine, and I repartinoned my Har
drive (so that would delete every thing on my Hard Drive I thought
and then I installed Windows XP Professional on my machine. Afte
installation every time I boot the system it gives my two choices

Microsoft Windows XP Professiona
Microsoft Windows XP Home Editio

Why is this? How can I get rid of the second option

(for you information
If I choose Home Editon I get this error message
Windows could not satrt because the following file is missing o
corrupt
<Windows root>\system32\hal.dll

But Windows XP Professional goes fin

my question is how can I get rid of the second option at the reboot

thanks in advanc
kher

 

[Khers Sefid]

thanks, where do i find boot.ini
I couldn't find it under c:\

 

[Gordon]

thanks, where do i find boot.ini
I couldn't find it under c:\

Did you enable Hidden and System files in your search/view?