windows xp home dual boot

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Jim

I tried to repair windows xp home by booting from the CD.
Instead of hitting "r", I hit "enter" and a new copy of
windows xp loaded.
Now when I start my computer I get two choices to boot
from. How do I either unistall one, or just get it to boot
from the one I want? Thanks
 
-----Original Message-----
I tried to repair windows xp home by booting from the CD.
Instead of hitting "r", I hit "enter" and a new copy of
windows xp loaded.
Now when I start my computer I get two choices to boot
from. How do I either unistall one, or just get it to boot
from the one I want? Thanks
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Same Problem here.
I have my ME disk and ME ESD.
Can't uninstall win XP
Hitting F8 on start up gets me DOS commands in a screen,
but does NOT get me into Safe mMde.
WTFO
Please Advise me also
Dale ([email protected])
 
if u dont have any info u want retained on the machine do
a clean install boot from cd when it ask for the option to
repair or install click install it will prompt for a
partition at that point D to delete partion and then enter
to install new one
 
Not an option for me
I have many files I do not want to lose, and haven't been able to offload.
Otherwise I would have reformatted the drive to NTFS, It's still FAT32
I think this install disk is defective.

----- (e-mail address removed) wrote: -----

if u dont have any info u want retained on the machine do
a clean install boot from cd when it ask for the option to
repair or install click install it will prompt for a
partition at that point D to delete partion and then enter
to install new one
 
Oh I added this part
Not an option for me
I have many files I do not want to lose, and haven't been able to offload.
Otherwise I would have reformatted the drive to NTFS, It's still FAT32
I think this install disk is defective.

I was also the guy with the ME disk (CD) and the ME Emergency Startup Disk (floppy)

Please advise also at (e-mail address removed)
Dale
 
Jim said:
I tried to repair windows xp home by booting from the CD.
Instead of hitting "r", I hit "enter" and a new copy of
windows xp loaded.
Now when I start my computer I get two choices to boot
from. How do I either unistall one, or just get it to boot
from the one I want? Thanks
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It depends on the configuration of your system and how and where the new
copy of XP was installed.
If you specified a new folder for the location of the new copy and you have
only one hard drive and one partition, it is possible you have created a
dual boot on the same partition. See the link below to fix your problem.

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

If you didn't specify a new location and have a single hard drive or
partition, you can probably just edit boot.ini to remove the entry you don't
want.
How to edit boot menu
http://michaelstevenstech.com/xpfaq.html#menu

Check if other entries in the FAQ helps with your problem.

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Jim
I think you left out a prior step to go into the System Restore tab and turn off System Restore

REgardless, After I did the above, I was successful in getting to boot into the correct windows. But how do I delete the c:\windows.0 subdirectory with the offending second load? My disk is near capacity. I need to delete the second windows XP installed to get back to where I belong

Regards
Dal

----- Michael Stevens wrote: ----

Jim wrote
I tried to repair windows xp home by booting from the CD
Instead of hitting "r", I hit "enter" and a new copy o
windows xp loaded
Now when I start my computer I get two choices to boo
from. How do I either unistall one, or just get it to boo
from the one I want? Thank
Click to expand...

It depends on the configuration of your system and how and where the ne
copy of XP was installed
If you specified a new folder for the location of the new copy and you hav
only one hard drive and one partition, it is possible you have created
dual boot on the same partition. See the link below to fix your problem

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#tw

If you didn't specify a new location and have a single hard drive o
partition, you can probably just edit boot.ini to remove the entry you don'
want
How to edit boot men
http://michaelstevenstech.com/xpfaq.html#men

Check if other entries in the FAQ helps with your problem

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Dale said:
Jim;
I think you left out a prior step to go into the System Restore tab
and turn off System Restore.

REgardless, After I did the above, I was successful in getting to
boot into the correct windows. But how do I delete the c:\windows.0
subdirectory with the offending second load? My disk is near
capacity. I need to delete the second windows XP installed to get
back to where I belong.

Regards,
Dale
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If you boot into the correct Windows, you should be able to delete the
windows.0 folder. If you can't please post back with exactly what you are
doing.
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