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Repair of XP
Name: JackMan Date: January 30, 2006 at 08:43:24 Pacific OS: Windows XP Home CPU/Ram: 1 gig
Comment:
I was doing a "repair" on XP and I grabbed the wrong OS disk and by mistake I put in a Win XP Professional disk and after I found my error, I cancelled everything and now when my pc boots, it asks which system I want to load, "Windows Home XP" or "Windows Professional XP Setup". How can I get rid of the "setup"?
Name: trvlr Date: January 30, 2006 at 09:23:34 Pacific
Reply:
Boot to XP-Home; set it as default OS to boot; reboot to verify it does just that. Presuming so... remove entry for XP-Pro setup from boot.ini. The "set default OS" and "to remove XP-Pro setup" entry can be done at the same location:
MyComputer\Properties\Advanced-tab/startup etc. button/option...
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Response Number 2
Name: Sp3cial Date: January 30, 2006 at 09:25:47 Pacific
Reply:
Hi, I may be wrong (so wait for confirmation) but if the Professional boot works, boot into it, browse to (partition you did the repair on):\Windows\System32 and run OSuninst.exe. Make sure you do this for the right installation, it's the XP uninstaller.
AMD Athlon XP 2000+ 512MB RAM 120GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus/Seagate Barracuda 60GB HDD Nvidia GeForce FX 5700LE 256MB 16x DVD-ROM 42x CD-RW 16x External DVD RW
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Response Number 3
Name: Sp3cial Date: January 30, 2006 at 09:29:20 Pacific
Reply:
Hmm, don't do what I said, I believe it uninstalls all XP installations, pro or not. Try what trvlr said. sorry about that, I'm really tired...
AMD Athlon XP 2000+ 512MB RAM 120GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus/Seagate Barracuda 60GB HDD Nvidia GeForce FX 5700LE 256MB 16x DVD-ROM 42x CD-RW 16x External DVD RW
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Response Number 4
Name: JackMan Date: January 30, 2006 at 10:56:21 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks trvlr...it works!
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Response Number 5
Name: trvlr Date: January 30, 2006 at 11:10:33 Pacific
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