Off-Topic, XP Reinstall

lasker at eng.buffalo.edu lasker at eng.buffalo.edu
Tue Oct 19 22:17:44 EDT 2004


Ken
    After looking at your boot.ini file again, you definately have two 
different Windows XP installations, one in %systemdrive%\Windows and 
one in %systemdrive%\WINDOWS.0

Boot to the one the audio works on and get your driver info before you 
reformat and reinstall.

Jason



Quoting Kenneth Lawson <kennethlawson2000 at yahoo.com>:

> 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
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> '/fastdect
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> 
> --- 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
> > > 
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> > > 
> > 
> 
> 
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