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Dell dimension 2400: I created a couple partitions, and installed XP home edition. Now, everytime I boot (or re-boot) I'm asked to choose between XP home edition and XP home edition. It's driving me nuts; I didn't install anything on the other partition. Also, when I try to choose the second os it errors out, of course because the os doesn't exist. How do I get rid of the prompt... or even better fix the problem? Thanks!

Nevermind, found an article on the boot.ini file... though it still bugs me that it "thinks" there was a nother os on there.



edit: can't spell

(Edited by redroy on 12-07-2005 16:39)

yeah that is weird if you didn't install anything there. Can you post a link to the article if it did help? Also, it might be good to slap it in FAQ


<edit> don't know how to make the FAQ icon show up </edit>
Later,

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(Edited by CPrompt on 12-08-2005 00:06)

A simuiar thing happened to my brother when he was ding a lot of reinstalls of his OS. Before he cleaned up his boot.ini it had a half dozen option for his 2 OSes that were installed.

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Here's the article Number 20. I just skipped the first few steps though, because there wasn't another os loaded.

edit: Link straight to it



(Edited by redroy on 12-09-2005 20:39)