Well, you could start over and format and reinstall everything one more time. It would be good practice and it doesn't sound like you've put very many other things into this install.. On the reboot during the install you just leave it alone it will boot in the right place. I think it suggests you remove the cd just before the reboot.
If you want to try to fix what you have, go to the start menu in WinXP and click on Help. Search for recovery console. Read and maybe print out the instructions for using it. Pay special attention to the copy command because that's what you will use. It's pretty easy and it will let you get back to where you started if things get messed up. You can get to the recovery console by booting from the cd. Next, open explorer to C:\ and find boot.ini. Make a copy of it someplace you can find it later if you need it. Maybe make a new folder in C:\ to save the copy to. Write down the location. The command you will use if you need it will be something like "copy C:\(new folder)\boot.ini C:\" Then, right click on My computer choose properties. In properties go to the advanced tab and click on Startup and recovery settings. On this page you'll see a drop down box at the top of the page that lists your start up options. See if you can figure out which is windows and which is windo. The windows one should be selected. Click on edit and you will see the file boot.ini open in notepad . You will see which OS is the default which should be windows and then the other. Delete the line for the other windo and save and close the file. Don't delete anything else. Your default os will be listed twice, once as default=, and once as a line that looks like: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect The line you are deleting will look something like: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDO="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect Close all that stuff and reboot and see if you are ok and if it boots directly into WinXP. If it won't boot then you use the recovery console to put the original boot.ini file back. If it does boot, then you can delete the windo folder. There may be some extraneous files in your system. I've never installed WinXP twice on the same drive so I don't know but they shouldn't be a problem. Ben Moore ----- Original Message ----- From: "John F" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 9:53 AM Subject: Re: PCWorks: XP Pro back to Home > Thanks Ben > Right the computer booted up first time with no OS into CD and it went > through the format then started to install. > It went through the install then rebooted and here my lack of experience > showed in that I let it boot up to CD again and it went into install and I > gave it another folder when asked.. > When it went to restart I removed the CD and it booted via the hard drive . > However each I booted up it asked which OS I wanted to use. Both were XP Pro > I have now got rid of one on the face of it on advice by changing some start > up setting or other and deleting the first folder ie windows, the second is > called windo. > This is a true story, only the names have been changed to protect me. > Do I need to anything .....with he computer I mean. > THanks > John > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ben Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 12:16 PM > Subject: Re: PCWorks: XP Pro back to Home > > > > It would be real hard to install it twice. Were you installing on a > > computer that already had an operating system on it? Exactly what options > > does it give you when you boot up and it asks you which OS to use. ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
