Thanks Ben I will try all that first and let you know what happens. I have another problem at present in that I cannot manually set up my internet connection but that might sort itself out. John
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 4:20 PM Subject: Re: PCWorks: XP Pro back to Home > 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 ============= 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 =====================================================
