XP installation aborted

[topsk8er]

hi everybody im a new poster here and im stuck. today my friend wanted me to help him format one of his external HD and so he brought it with him to my house and i plugged it in to my computer via IDE cable (i didnt kno how to format it with the fire wire he had and it wasnt getting picked up in my computer) so i set his HD to slave and threw in my XP cd and went to format his HD (yeah i kno it was stupid to try it that way) and anyways when it was done formatting i forgot to take out the xp cd and xp started the install program and i was like "oh damn" and i took out the cd and turned off the power and rebooted my computer. now it wont load up right it goes to a screen and shows two windows XP os on the screen for me to choose. but it chooses by itself and chooses the half installed one. i went into safe mode on the origional and all my stuff is still there, so i restarted and went back into the F8 menu and choose "boot windows normally" and i was able to choose which os to boot so i choose the origional os and hey, i got in. but i dont want thet 2nd half-installed os on there, is there anyway i can get rid of that? im backing up all my important files right now onto a 2nd hard drive i use for storage. id would like to avoid erasing anything on my computer i just want it to be the way it was before.

i have no idea what to do guys plz help me out here =(

 

[topsk8er]

*bump* cmon anyone got any tips?

 

[Basie]

Since you can boot into your original WinXP do so and then rt click MyComputer>select Properties>Advanced>Startup and Recovery-Settings>Edit. You will see the Boot.ini file
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(7)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(7)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(7)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional Install
C:\="Microsoft Windows"

Delete the highlighted line.

 

[Churnd]

Perhaps a simpler way to go... boot from your CD, go to recovery, and type fixmbr. Make sure you do it for the original installation.

 

[cubby1223]

But hopefully this will teach you that is not the proper way to format a drive. Should have just gone into XP, then under control panel, admin tools, computer management, disk management, there you can re-setup that drive however you wish.

 

[topsk8er]

cool thx for the help guys! yeah for sure ive learned my lesson on formatting drives hehe