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Problems booting with 3 copies of XP - 2 corrupted
Hi. Ok this is a bit complicated. I wanted to install another copy of XP onto my external hard drive just in case the one on the laptop got corrupted or infected. I used the USB 2.0 port to connect the hard drive to my Inspiron 6000. The install went fine until I got a blue screen saying the process was stopped to prevent damage to the computer. It also told me to check the drive using ChkDisk. So being a retard, I decided to just format the drive and try again. Well it didn't work the second time and now I have THREE copies of XP on the OS choosing screen. Problem is, it keeps automatically selecting one of the copies that is corrupted so now everytime I want to just use my laptop I have to manually press F8 and choose the working copy. Is there any way to remove the two corrupted copies from the OS choice screen?
Denny Denham
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Posted July 13th, 2005 01:00
The procedure here will do it or you can go to Start|Run, enter msconfig and click OK. On the BOOT.INI tab click the "Check all boot paths" button and two of the boot paths will be listed as non-valid and you can delete them at that time.