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    i1300 thinks it has 2 OS's

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by jkent95, Feb 12, 2006.

  1. jkent95

    jkent95 Newbie

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    Has anyone encountered this. I just re-installed XP on my girlfriends new i1300 to get rid of Dell's bloatware. I deleted all partitions and installed fresh from disc. Now when I start windows it asks me which OS I want to install and displays a selection of XP Home edition twice. I know she will find this annoying. Is there any way I can fix this? Thanks
     
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  2. 21st Hermit

    21st Hermit Notebook Consultant

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    My bet, there was a hidden partition which you didn't see/delete. One way to determine this is to look at the drive capacity, for example a 40GB drive should show ~37GB of space.

    Did you reformat the HD before doing your fresh XP install?

    Hermit
     
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  3. Amber

    Amber Notebook Prophet NBR Reviewer

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    This is a common problem. An extra line was added to your boot.ini and needs to be removed (right click on my computer --> proprieties-->advanced-->startup and recovery section-->settings-->edit-->delete the line that starts with multi--> save file and exit )
     
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    jkent95 Newbie

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    Thank you Southerngirl, it worked like a charm.
     
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  5. onick

    onick Notebook Consultant

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    hey SG thanks. me too was living with the problem for a months or so and didn't know what to do :eek:
     
    onick, Feb 12, 2006
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