I formatted and reinstalled XP but now I have two versions of XP. What to do. And I tried at Add/Remove Programs but ther's no other windows
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Jump to PostI formatted and reinstalled XP but now I have two versions of XP. What to do. And I tried at Add/Remove Programs but ther's no other windows
will the computer boot into both versions ?????
Jump to Postno. i had boot.ini problems with previous version so I formatted and reinstalled. so it boots into new version easily but it cant boot into the previous.
So you don't have 2 just the wrong info in the new boot.ini ,easy fix is to change the amount of time it …
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I formatted and reinstalled XP but now I have two versions of XP. What to do. And I tried at Add/Remove Programs but ther's no other windows
will the computer boot into both versions ?????
duaban
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no. i had boot.ini problems with previous version so I formatted and reinstalled. so it boots into new version easily but it cant boot into the previous.
caperjack
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no. i had boot.ini problems with previous version so I formatted and reinstalled. so it boots into new version easily but it cant boot into the previous.
So you don't have 2 just the wrong info in the new boot.ini ,easy fix is to change the amount of time it takes to boot to the good one ,right click on mycomputer/properties /advanced /startup and recovery ,settings and lower the time to display operating system to about 5 sec or so .this way you won't have to wait the full 30 seonds or hit the enter key
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When you say you reformatted and reinstalled, did you delete the exisiting partition?
It sounds like you installed a fresh copy on a new partition and left the old one there.
If you only did this recently and haven't installed a lot of other stuff yet, the cleanest way (IMO) is to do it again, but this time delete all partitions so the whole disk is unformatted, then do a full NTFS format.
duaban
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no i installed at the same partition. and thanks to caperjack. It worked
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And I edited boot.ini file. Just simply deleted the other Windows and it now boots by itself. Thanks to everyone who posted here.
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