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- Sep 2, 2003
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- Muncie, IN
Hi, I'm still a noob when it comes to OS management. here's the deal, I used the winxp boot disk to create partitions because for some reason my backup program (drive image 02) wasn't recognizing them when i created them in windows on my new hard drive. To make a long story short, after formatting the first partition windows started to install, I cancelled as soon as I caught it, I had left the room to grab a bite to eat. Now my problem is that my system had one complete xp and one incomplete install.
This effectivly changed my machine to a dual boot machine, with two xp's. I have the option of choosing which one. My question is how do I get rid of the new xp. I've gone under "startup and recovery" and can see that I can edit the startup options file and also select which OS I want to boot from by default. I just want to get rid of it on startup becuase it's just annoying. It's not a complete install anyways.
My dilemma is that I don't know which one to edit out of the startup options file. Here is the listing now.
[boot loader]
timeout=1
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
By going under disk managment I know that the correct bootable xp is on disk 0, and that the non-bootable is on disk 1. Both are installed on the first partition of each drive. So I'm assuming that means my bootable version is on rdisk 0 partition 1, but i'm not sure.
I've reformatted the partition with the non-bootable XP, in my lame attempt to get rid of the thing but now it says it can't find files, which I knew would happen I just didn't think about it. I've also used this partition to hold an my current image as a backup.
So if anybody can help me out, I'd just like to know how to make my machine a single boot once again. thanks for any help.
This effectivly changed my machine to a dual boot machine, with two xp's. I have the option of choosing which one. My question is how do I get rid of the new xp. I've gone under "startup and recovery" and can see that I can edit the startup options file and also select which OS I want to boot from by default. I just want to get rid of it on startup becuase it's just annoying. It's not a complete install anyways.
My dilemma is that I don't know which one to edit out of the startup options file. Here is the listing now.
[boot loader]
timeout=1
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
By going under disk managment I know that the correct bootable xp is on disk 0, and that the non-bootable is on disk 1. Both are installed on the first partition of each drive. So I'm assuming that means my bootable version is on rdisk 0 partition 1, but i'm not sure.
I've reformatted the partition with the non-bootable XP, in my lame attempt to get rid of the thing but now it says it can't find files, which I knew would happen I just didn't think about it. I've also used this partition to hold an my current image as a backup.
So if anybody can help me out, I'd just like to know how to make my machine a single boot once again. thanks for any help.
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