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Need help with clean install of Windows XP! Strange problem!

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Rick67

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I just finished doing a clean install of Windows XP and now when I boot up my PC I get a screen that askes me which OS I want to boot. The strange thing is, it gives me two options for Windows XP Home. The first one boots up fine and the second one says there's a problem and doesn't boot. I only installed XP once so why does it show XP twice. I delted all my partitions and created a new one during the install. I've also only got one hard drive in my PC. Anyone know what's going on?

Also, I skipped registration until after I had everything setup. How do I go about registering now? I don't see an option for it?
 
I had this exact same problem today with Win2k.

Not sure if this is the same for you, but try this:

Control Panel>System>Advanced>Startup and Recovery>and from the drop down menu, choose the version of Win XP that actually works, and uncheck the box that says "display list of OS's for XX seconds"

I think that should do it, assuming you can even do that stuff in XP 🙂 It was bugging the hell out of me when it did that, pretty glad I figured that out 🙂

If those steps dont work for you, just do a search in windows help for dual boot, or multiple operating systems 🙂

Jeff
 
randomboy,

I went to Startup and Recovery and Default operating system had two Windows XP's listed. Instead of unchecking the box below like you did, I just edited the file and deleted the last line. After I rebooted Default operating system now only shows one OS and I no longer have to pick one at boot.

I sure would like to know why it did that? I wonder if it has anything to do with the SP1 boot disc I used?

Anyway, thanks for the help!
 
I sure would like to know why it did that?
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IIRC, an NT-only machine has the boot loader installed on the MBR. If you wiped your partitions before installing, the MBR (and the loader) would still be intact. So the new installation probably left the old information to be safe, and added itself to the list.

 
Well, assuming that I'm right about where the loader is installed, what you did was perfectly fine. I'm sure you can reset the MBR with the recovery console (just fdisk /mbr, I think), but you're not really gaining anything in doing so. Faster to delete the line than sort out the correct recovery command.

Just cheap and lazy, I guess...
 
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