windows XP Home reinstall issue

[henren857]

Hello All,
i recently deleted the partitions on my 2 installed hard drives and
reformatted and reinstalled Windows XP home, It only installed on one of the
2 drives. the other did
not show up on "MY COMPUTER". So I did a reinstall and only picked that
drive to add a partition and install. Windows then reformatted the first
install then installed
XP home on both drives. Now when my computer starts it shows 2 Windows XP
home loads and asks which one I want to start. I have reinstalled before and
never
had this problem. Is there a way to fix this without reinstalling? I believe
it is using
up memory this way or am I wrong? Please HELLLLLLLLLLLLP.

 

[JS]

You're not using up memory but the unwanted install does take up disk space.
First use Windows Explorer/Properties and change the drive label
on the partition/install you still want to use to: KEEP and the unwanted
partition label to: NOKEEP
Then use 'Disk Management' to reformat the partition that has the
NOKEEP label. The unwanted install of XP is now gone.

Then Start/Run and enter: msconfig
Click on the 'BOOT.INI' tab
Click on the 'Check All Boot Paths' button.

You should see a message
"It appears that the following line in the BOOT.INI file does not refer to a
valid operating system:"
and "Would you like to remove it from the BOOT.INI file"
Click: 'Yes'

Reboot and you should no longer have the problem of two copies of XP Home.

JS