Boot manager issues

[Geosurface]

Hi

So I have a slick Asus bios from a P8Z68-V mobo, nicest bios I've ever dealt with haha. However, it isn't helping me avoid a few hiccups as I set up my new desktop...

Okay, so the first issue I have with boot manager is that it's showing 2 Windows 7 installs. There is, in actuality, only one. The reason for this is that I initially installed Win 7 on a traditional 2tb drive, before thinking better of it and grabbing an 80gb SSD which now has Win7 on it. I formatted the 2tb but boot manager is still popping up, and thinking there are 2. I did a little searching on how to possibly eliminate that second one. I heard something about the hidden "boot" folder on my C: drive. I found that, but I'm not sure exactly what I'd delete in there and I don't want to screw up anything necessary to the real Win7 install. Any guidance on that would be awesome.

The other issue came about when I tried to install Win XP on a 222gb drive in there. When I attempted to install it from CD, booting from CD drive, it told me it needed to create some files on my SSD even though I wanted it on that other old drive. I researched this and people were saying the best thing might be to just unplug all but the destination drive for XP, then install it, then plug them back in. I may try that later but in the meantime... last time I was booting it took me to a "bootmg is missing" page, and even when I made sure it was no longer set to boot from the CD drive first, but back to the SSD... I still got that. I haven't rebooted in a while but I think it will still be doing that. The way I got back into Win7 anyway was to go into the fancy bios and select "Windows boot manager" as the boot option.

 

[Geosurface]

Ugh this is really giving me headaches now.

I managed to remove the second defunct Windows 7 install from the Windows boot menu , but that may have put me in an even worse position ultimately.

Right now I can't get into Win 7. When I boot with the install disc in, from the install disc, it won't let me even use windows repair because it says it's a different version than the version of windows that's installed. This was all caused by me just THINKING about installing Windows XP on another, old hard drive in there. I never even actually installed it in any way! but that's what caused this.

This is amazingly frustrating, if anyone can help I'd greatly appreciate it. I am trying to at least get to a command prompt.

 

[Geosurface]

I just reinstalled Win7 and gave up on having XP on that other drive, nevermind.