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    Hi, refomat help please.

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by cruxforce, Jul 11, 2007.

  1. cruxforce

    cruxforce Notebook Guru

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    Hi guy i just reinstall xp on my notebook and now i have it say two OS on boot up (please select one or automatically select for you)


    Windows XP Professional
    Windows XP Professional


    do you know why it say two? please reply asap! I hope i can solve without having to reformat again.

    thank!
     
    cruxforce, Jul 11, 2007
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    btw there is no partition.
     
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    The boot.ini file in the root of the drive has two entries.
     
    AKAJohnDoe, Jul 11, 2007
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    sorry i not quit understand. please clarified.
     
    cruxforce, Jul 11, 2007
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    first selection go through finely :

    second selection i chose say:

    Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not tread from the selected book disk. Check boot path and disk hardware.
     
    cruxforce, Jul 11, 2007
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    anyone please urgent help appreciate.
     
    cruxforce, Jul 11, 2007
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    In the root of your C: drive there is a hidden system file named boot.ini there are two entries in this file. One points to the valid XP partition and the other points to an invalid partition. You can edit the file and remove the offending entry.
     
    AKAJohnDoe, Jul 11, 2007
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    If you are not sure which is the good one, you can first change the title of one or both to make them more readily distinguishable.
     
    AKAJohnDoe, Jul 11, 2007
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    thank u but how you show the ini file?
     
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    Under XP it is a setting to show hidden and system files, but it might be easier to go to START then RUN and type notepad c:\boot.ini into the run box and run it.
     
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    worked wonderfully, thank you!
     
    cruxforce, Jul 11, 2007
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    Umm CALL DELL!
     
    bmnotpls, Jul 11, 2007
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    You are very welcome.
     
    AKAJohnDoe, Jul 11, 2007
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    to find boot.ini

    1.goto Start->run
    2.In the box type : msconfig
    3.press ok
    4.Now you can goto boot.ini and make the changes
    Hope it helps.
     
    sason, Jul 11, 2007
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