Re: How did I end up with 3 XP Home installations?

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It's something that sometimes happens, the boot.ini file can sometimes survive a format. The old installations are no longer on the disk, just edit the boot.ini file and remove the invalid paths, or use the Msconfig tool and have it check for and remove invalid boot.ini paths.

John

proserose wrote:
Hello...

Re: Acer TravelMate 2480

I deleted all partitions, formatted disk from FAT32 to NTFS and did a clean install of XP Home SP2. I then installed a pared down version of Acer 2480 drivers and software because I hate junk.

Everything is okay except on startup I now have to "choose" one of 3 Home versions listed to boot from? (Notebook was previously owned).

To doublecheck, I booted from XP installation disk and only 1 partition with 1 XP install are shown.

How can previous installations of Home still be present on a newly formatted, cleanly installed disk?

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