Off-Topic, XP Reinstall

[lasker at eng.buffalo.edu]

Ken
    I am not sure how familiar you are with the boot.ini file but what 
your file can tell you is that Window XP Home has been installed on 
the same drive and same partition.  When you reinstall Windows XP on a 
system it just appends a new entry in the boot.ini.  If you installed 
Windows into the same directory. ex (c:\windows) Then booth menu 
choices should run the same installation.  If you somehow reinstalled 
into a different directory say c:\winnnt, then it's the same os dual 
booting but with the same OS.  Since one menu choice asks for 
registration but the other does not this may be the case.

I would agree with what others are saying and do a full reinstall.  
Personally I never upgrade an OS unless absolutely necesary, I prefer 
to delete partitions and reformat the drive.

You can delete the partions and reformat during the Windows XP 
installation process, no need to fdisk with a boot floppy. (don't 
forget to backup data)

Hope this helps

Jason


Quoting Kenneth Lawson <kennethlawson2000 at yahoo.com>:

> 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
> > 
> >     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>:
> > 
> > > 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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