XP Home and XP Professional conflict

[Guest]

I have a Dell laptop that came with Windows XP Home Edition installed.

I purchased, sperately, Windows XP Professional for a HP laptop.

The XP Professional was accidently placed in the CD drive and recieved some
type of partial install on my Dell.

Now, when booting up the Dell, it gives the message:

Please select the Operating System:

XP Home Edition
XP Professional

and then has a countdown clock to do something other than move on the with
the XP professional install.

Is there anything I can do to remove or stop whatever is requiring me to
make a choice? I do not have an interest in install the Professional on the
Dell and would like to just make any trace of it on the dell go away.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I have a Dell laptop that came with Windows XP Home Edition installed.

I purchased, sperately, Windows XP Professional for a HP laptop.

The XP Professional was accidently placed in the CD drive and recieved some
type of partial install on my Dell.

Now, when booting up the Dell, it gives the message:

Please select the Operating System:

XP Home Edition
XP Professional

and then has a countdown clock to do something other than move on the with
the XP professional install.

Is there anything I can do to remove or stop whatever is requiring me to
make a choice? I do not have an interest in install the Professional on the
Dell and would like to just make any trace of it on the dell go away.

Any help would be appreciated.

Under normal circumstances, placing two operating systems in the same
partition is a recipe for disaster. A careful, knowledgeable specialist
can do this safely for a short period of time, but the ordinary PC user
had better be backing up his data hourly, as a catastrophic failure is a
matter of "when," rather than "if."

At this point, the safest thing you can probably do is format the hard
drive and start afresh. Simply boot from the Dell's WinXP Home
installation CD. You'll be offered the opportunity to delete, create,
and format partitions as part of the installation process. (You may need
to re-arrange the order of boot devices in the PC's BIOS to boot from
the CD.)

HOW TO Install Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;316941

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/clean_install.htm


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Bruce Chambers

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