Two Installations of XP

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Joe Smith

Hi all,
I had XP installed on my hard drive and recently reformatted the drive and
installed again. Now when I boot-up I get an option to select the operating
system to start and it has WindowsXP listed twice. It's just like I had
another OS such as Linux installed. I deleted everything off the drive and
completely reformatted it so how can I be getting something saying I have
two OS's installed and they are both XP?
I guess I don't know enough about the windows boot process but I could swear
that I deleted the boot partition and everything. Does windows write
something to the bios that says there is another OS installed? As I write
this I had the same issue on a comptuer that had XP home edition installed.
I installed XP proffessional on the same machine, completely reformatting
the HD again and now I get an option to select either XP Pro or XP Home.

Thanks for any help,
 
You can easily fix this by right-clicking My Computer ->Properties ->
Advanced -> Startup and remove the systems you don't want. Be sure you
remove the right one! So if you usually chose the first one in the
list, then remove the other.

Peter Kaufman MCP
 
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