XP Pro & Home in boot file? There is only one partition?

[Busie23]

Friends bought a Dell Dim 4700 and hosed it up when trying to load SBC Yahoo DSL software. Upon inspection I found all kinds of funny preinstalled software from Dell, of which they wanted none, so I said I would format and reinstall XP Pro. The pc came with home, so I popped in the Pro cd, rebooted and did a clean install. It had two partitions, one large, one small, I'm assuming for some sort of backup recover option from Dell? Anyway, I deleted all partitions and created one big one and proceeded to install.

Now upon reboot I get the boot loader asking if I want Pro or Home? How can it have any knowledge of home at all if I wiped everything out? Should I just edit the boot.ini file and remove home or reformat and reinstall?

 

[dev0lution]

Edit the boot.ini file to delete the XP Home entry. Happened to me when I did a clean install the minute my old dell arrived. I can't believe the garbage they load those things up with!

http://support.microsoft.com/d...kb;EN-US;q289022

 

[mdnblaster]

Is it better to create one huge partition or two partitions, one for the OS (WinXP Pro) and one for the rest of the applications? And would a 6 GB partition be enough for the OS?