GLO Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 The situation is that i have XPpro SP1 installed on my PC, then i created a SP2 slipstream unattended disc to create a fresh install.When i rebooted and had the SP2 disc in, it asked if i wanted to boot from the disc, I click yes!It went throught the intial steps but did not show the Format screen at all. ( i have 3 partitions). It ended up installing on the 3rd partition and as such i had 2 partitions running XP, one with SP1 and the last with SP2.I tried to format partition 1 to no avail then, rebooted and then was able to format partition 1, finally. I then installed again from the CD onto partition 1 and formated partition3.Now when i boot up from the HDD a window asks me which OS do i want to run?XPprofessional orXPprofessional.The first one works and the second doesnt. How can i get rid of this??? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCT Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 open your boot.ini file in notepadgoto run type:notepad C:\boot.inidelete that certain line thats it Note: MAKE SURE U KNOW WHAT LINE IT IS your boot.ini file may also be read only, so goto folder options, deselect "Hide protected system files" or something like that, then boot.ini will show up in c:\ as semi transparent, right click it, choose properties, then remove the read only attribute (then do step 1)regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nolookingca Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 just another way of M$ presenting its "logic" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCT Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 IMO its good, specially if your a n00b & u dont know what boot.ini is used 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nolookingca Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 IMO its good, specially if your a n00b & u dont know what boot.ini is used 4 No I mean the two "Windows XP Professional"s - M$ would think that 5 of these would be easy to figure out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GLO Posted August 18, 2004 Author Share Posted August 18, 2004 open your boot.ini file in notepadgoto run type:notepad C:\boot.inidelete that certain line thats it Note: MAKE SURE U KNOW WHAT LINE IT IS your boot.ini file may also be read only, so goto folder options, deselect "Hide protected system files" or something like that, then boot.ini will show up in c:\ as semi transparent, right click it, choose properties, then remove the read only attribute (then do step 1)regardsThanks so much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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