Ok Ben, I decided to try the first bit of your advice ie format. I booted up with the CD in and got to the options of boot up from CD. However it carried on to install so I went along with it. THe install has cured my problems so I am happy. However can you say how I did not get into format. Did I miss something or not do something. THanks again 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 ============= 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 =====================================================
