Re: phantom XP partition

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RiderDude <RiderDude@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

|>one of my dumb kids infested my dell dimension 2400 with everyspyware program
|>known to man (and a few unknown ones). i tried washing them out, and
|>scrubbing them out, but the stains were still there. i ended up doing a clean
|>install of XP from the disks which i miracuously found in the attic. deleted
|>all partitions and built a single new NTFS partition and nestled XP snugly
|>therein. problem is, now when i boot, BIOS thinks there are 2 OSs on the disk
|>and asks me to choose the one i want to boot from. one works (i'm assuming
|>this is the newly installed version), the other doesnt (i'm assuming it's a
|>ghost of the old OS rattling around like Jacob Marley). how can i get rid of
|>Marley's ghost?

You didn't do a clean install, the boot.ini has both systems listed
now.
Start | Run | MSCONFIG <enter>
goto boot.ini and click on - check boot paths.

Or edit the extra OS out of C:\boot.ini

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