Remove multiple OS WinNT/XP

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Cyber06

Help!!

I have 5 OS's showing on my computer at startup, the basic OS is WinNT
but i never use that OS and it does not show up at startup like the
rest of the OS's. I have always use Win XP Professional as my basic OS
since i bought the computer. The problem is that i want to remove
WinNT, Reinstall a new fresh Win XP but i dont want to lose all my
files (music,movies,etc.) and set XP as Default so i dont have to
choose from a list like right now. Also, i don't have the WINDOWS
folder on my system.

PLEASE HELP!
 
how many hard drives? how many partitions?
What OS is on each partition?
what can you boot to now?
Is XP your boot manager or something else?
do you have a boot.ini?
what is your hard drive configuration?
what is computer bios boot order?
How can you not have a Windows directory?
 
Just one hard Drive, With several OS on same Hard drive(no partitions).
at startup i have to choose from a list of OS's (about 5 of them), but
only one of them works, so i have to guess until i get the right one.
BIOS boot (1.hard drive 2. CD-Rom). i dont know why i'm missing Windows
directory, instead i have WINNT.
 
I recently removed Trojan Horse Trojan.Elitebar and in so doing messed
up my windows OS. I had to boot with my OEM CD OS disc. Then I created
another problem two Windows XP home edition OS. After a great deal of
searching I found the following guide from MS
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=888023 This solved my problem.
Good Luck from Kansas
SnowBird
 
The boot options screen may show operating systems no longer installed on
the system. You may only need to edit the boot.ini file.
 
Thanks y'all, problem fixed. Now, i'm running Windows XP on a WinNT
partition; how do i create a fresh new copy of XP in a different
partition with all the programs and files that i actually have?
 
I only have one partition, but i want to create a new one with a fresh
copy of xp with all my files and programs, then delete the old
partition which contains winNT.
 
not sure what concern is?
you don't have NT anymore you have XP!!
if you did correctly, you deleted all the NT stuff.

You can erase your hard drive and create 2 or more partitions. then reformat
and install XP.

or you can do something with partition magic.

I would say for your experience level, I would just start from scratch.

I will re-state: I don't think you need to do anything!!!!
If you continue, you will possibly have an unbootable computer and tons of
headaches trying to get it fixed!!!!!
 
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