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"If it is, are you using a third party boot manager program rather that the built in ability to multiboot in XP or Longhorn? "
"I don't understand "third party boot manager program""
E.g. Partition Magic has one you can install called Boot Magic.
If you had a third party program doing that, you would probably see something on the screen about what program is doing the dual booting.
It sounds like you are not seeing anything but a line that says "Choose an operating system" or similar, which would be the case if XP or Longhorn (Vista) were doing the dual booting.
"if selection does not move to "Long Horn" the system automatically using "windows XP pro". I never use "Long Horn" before. ( I buy this PC from my friend by system like that)"
Can you still contact your friend you got the computer from?
If you can, ask him which operating system he installed last - XP or Longhorn (Vista).
If he has good computer knowledge, have him come to your place and help you, if he can.
"Actually I want to Re Install the new windows XP but if Install a new one the programs in imy harddisk may could not running by a new one. I have many program file so need to install one by one."
If the only reason you want to re-install XP is because of this problem, you may not have to do that at all if you provide enough information to me.
What I think might be wrong is either
- the boot.ini file that makes the dual boot work was corrupted somehow. I know what to tell you to do to fix that if it is XP that was installed last, but I need to know whether it was installed last or not not.
- or - the Longhorn installation isn't working properly and did not allow the boot.ini to take control of the hard drive again.
Normally it doesn't matter whether you turn off the computer at any point while dual booting. It should work fine when you try to boot again.
The same thing can happen with a third party boot manager program but in that case it must be fixed by using that third party program's setup or configuration utility, e.g., by booting with a bootable CD or bootable floppy for it.
If it IS the boot.ini file that is the problem, it takes only a few minutes to try fixing that, once you have read some directions and understand them.
If you want to re-install XP because it has other problems, there are things you can try that will not delete the data on the partition Windows XP is on, so you will not have to re-install programs. One of them takes no more than a hour or so to run, to see if it helps.
If that doesn't help, then you will have to re-install Windows the regular way, which deletes all the data on the partition Windows XP is on.
It is VERY short-sighted, some would say it's stupid, to run Setup whenever you can't figure out a problem.
Setup takes less than an hour, but that's only the first step. It may take you several full days to get your computer back to the way it was before.
I DO NOT advise you to run XP Setup without some help from someone you know who knows computers well and has done that before. If there is anything on the drive you can't install again from CDs or from the web that you don't want to lose, it should be copied somewhere else if it's on the Windows partition. You can usually do that even if you can't get Windows to boot, if you know how to do it.
