Off-Topic, XP Reinstall

Kenneth Lawson kennethlawson2000 at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 19 16:14:50 EDT 2004


Jason;

  I did msconfig and in the bootin. tab it showed 2 windows xp.

multi(0)disk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS.0= WINDOWS XP HOME EDITION"/fastdect
multi(0)disk(0)partition (1)Windows=Windows XP Home Edition"/fastdect

  Dose that help any?

  Ken












'/fastdect
'

--- lasker at eng.buffalo.edu wrote:

> Ken
> 
>     Just for the heck of it what does your %SystemDrive%\boot.ini
> file 
> look like?
> 
> 
> Jason
> 
> 
> 
> Quoting Kenneth Lawson <kennethlawson2000 at yahoo.com>:
> 
> > Hello;
> > 
> >    I know this is a linux user group but I have a windows
> > question/problems, and really don't know anyone who knows more them
> > me
> > about windows to ask. (I live in Allegheny Country, in the country)
> > 
> >      The question is this, I reinstalled xp last week  I seem to
> > have
> > everything up and going ok but I also seem to have two copies of XP
> > on
> > my hd.when I boot I get a menu asking which one I want to use. I'm
> > using the first one. I tried the second one and it wanted to
> > regeisitor
> > that copy of xp. So I backed out and restarted with the first copy.
> > Do
> > I need to reinstall everything again or what? Also I apparently
> > didn't
> > get the audio drivers or codecs installed because I don't have any
> > sound on the machine at all, other then beeps. Also my Works 2000
> > crashes the whole system, which never happened before.
> > 
> > 
> >   If any of you have run into something like before and are
> > interested
> > in  giving me a hand I would appreciate it.
> > 
> > 
> >   Thanks for your imput,
> > 
> >   Ken Lawson
> > 
> > =====
> > Ken & Nancy Lawson 
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> > and 
> > 
> 


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