Off-Topic, XP Reinstall

Cyber Source peter at thecybersource.com
Tue Oct 19 16:54:24 EDT 2004


That's what is showing you your choices on boot, if you removed one, you 
wouldn't see it as a choice anymore.

Kenneth Lawson wrote:

>Jason;
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>  I did msconfig and in the bootin. tab it showed 2 windows xp.
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>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
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>  Dose that help any?
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>  Ken
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>--- lasker at eng.buffalo.edu wrote:
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>>Ken
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>>    Just for the heck of it what does your %SystemDrive%\boot.ini
>>file 
>>look like?
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>>Jason
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>>Quoting Kenneth Lawson <kennethlawson2000 at yahoo.com>:
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>>>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 
>>>You may now see Our Pictures at  http://www.civilwarimpressions.com
>>>and 
>>>
>>>      
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>=====
>Ken & Nancy Lawson 
>You may now see Our Pictures at  http://www.civilwarimpressions.com and 
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