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I've been messing around with different windows installs, so I had a few copies of windows floating around my hard drive for a the past few weeks. Today I decided to format all of my partitions and reinstall. Everything worked... BUT, when I boot up, the computer asks me to pick an OS, I get a choice between two copies of winxp home. The first one works just fine, but the second one gives me an error message that it's missing one of the .dll files. Obviously, there shouldn't be anything remaining from that last install.
Where have I gone wrong? Have I failed to delete something? Can I set something so that I don't have to pick my OS everytime? Already tried formatting all of my drives again.
Thanks,
Andrew
go to the root directory of your C drive and open the "boot.ini" file in notepad... remove the line of the OS choice that's causing the problems... ta da.
--you might have to make all files viewable and un-hide protected system files--
TK.
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oh.... and the above assumes you haven't used a 3rd party boot manager of some kind.
Formatting should have fixed your problem... are you really formatting?... or just reinstalling windows on top?
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Not obvious what sort of "formatting" would leave boot.ini but removing all partitions should get it settled down.
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If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.M2
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plz do not kill u'r disk. simply open the the "c:\BOOT.ini " in any text pad or command promptu want and delete all the unwanted entries .
do keep a back up copy of the boot.ini , for if u accidentally delete some required entries u 'r system won't boot againBHABANIPRASADPATI@GMAIL.COM
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Andrew,
Don't know exactly what you've done fore sure. But, give this a try, ok.
1.) Back up your BOOT.INI
2.) Click the Start button.
3.) On the Start Menu click Run.
4.) Beside the Open: type msconfig Then click OK, or press Enter.
5.) Click the Tab; BOOT.INI
6.) Click the button; Check All Boot Paths.If an invalid boot path is found. You will get something of this nature;
It appears that the following line in the BOOT.INI file does not refer to a valid operating system:
xxxxxxxx(<< that, the x's, being the line it finds)
Would you like to remove it from the BOOT.INI file?
[Yes] [No]Just an idea, your choice if you want to do it, or not. Also could stop the choice of which at start up. Right-click My Computer>> Properties>> Advanced (Tab)>> Under Startup and Recovery, click the Setting button..... Hold that thought for a minute ;-) You say the first one works fine. The Default, yes. The one if you don't do anything, it boots to. And that one starts up good, and is the one you want, correct. If it is, you can uncheck the; Time to display list of operating systems: Just another way :-) Anyone jump in, if these things are wrong, ok ;-)
Good Luck,
CrazyOne
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You're obviously not formatting correctly or your idea of what formatting is isn't the same as the rest of the world...lol
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