hdd thinks theres two windows installs

BoneBone Canadia
edited July 2006 in Hardware
ok i have a big problem.. i got a harddirve from a freind, and tried put it on so i had two harddrives. one for os one for storge. this was a hdd used in past by freind.

so i hooked it up as slave, put in widnwos boot cd and formatted it as nfts and than ti put windows sytem files on it.. and than it would ask me which os to boot into.. so i couldnt figure out how fix it. so i unhooked new hdd, problem is.

depsite i tnot being hooked in. it still ask me for which os (both windows xp)

how do i fix this?

Comments

  • NosferatuNosferatu Arizona
    edited July 2006
    Boot into Windows XP and go to Start > Run and type: notepad c:\boot.ini

    Under [operating systems] you should see the option you don't want it to show. Delete that line and only that line. If you want help, you can post the contents of your boot.ini here and someone will tell you what to remove.
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited July 2006
    Go to System>>Startup & Recovery>>Settings, then where it says "To edit the startup options file manually..." click on Edit. Then delete the line referring to the "wrong" copy of Windows.

    Make sure you get the right one, or your next question is going to be "How do I do a Repair Install". ;)
  • BoneBone Canadia
    edited July 2006
    i got it fixed :-) thanks for help.

    and i already had to do a repair install today.
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