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Answer» Hi everybody. You may have another installation of Windows XP on another partition. thank you Raptor, yes I have $WIN_NT$.~BT file on C and this is the cause of problem. How should I remove this installation?Did you reformat before reinstalling Windows XP? If not, I suggest that you do so now.I would try this first of all. But keep a copy of the ntldr, ntdetect.com and boot.ini files on a floppy first of all. [Boot Loader] Timeout=5 Default=C:\$WIN_NT$.~BT\BOOTSECT.DAT [Operating Systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect It looks like you have NT and XP both on partition (1) which is DRIVE C: (?) I have XP US English on partition (1) (drive C: ) and XP Pro French on partition (2) which is drive (partition) D: I would have partitioned and installed XP on partition (2) ( drive D: ) So my boot.ini looks like this... [boot loader] timeout=10 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professionnel" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows Recovery Console" /cmdcons ... with the recovery console. I have never used NT so I hope this is of help to you. Quote Did you reformat before reinstalling Windows XP? If not, I suggest that you do so now. I think reformatting will help to recover, but I want to remove second OS without touching Win XP which I use. Mac, changing boot.ini didn't help. Because Default=C:\$WIN_NT$.~BT\BOOTSECT.DAT still shows that there's second OS and it's chosen as default OS. Please can you tell me how to remove one of the OSS when there are two on the same partition without harming another? Thanks all. I thought you had wanted to keep NT until I read the thread again. Personally I would re-partition, re-format and re-install so that you get a clean install of XP and so that you can make a clean drive image, but you could always try this... Edit the boot.ini to read... [boot loader] timeout=5 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect In the drop down list next to the boot.ini Edit button make sure that it is XP which is set as the default OS.Thank you Mac, that works. thanks all. I love this forum. Well what do you know?!! Good guesswork huh? Now about all that sinning. Have a word with pcdoc4christ and - maybe - he'll let you buy an indulgence. Or did an ancestor capture Sind? Good, I am relieved to hear that it did work! Need to rename your recycle bin at all? I finally got that one right as well. |
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