Repairing XP
by A pretty thorough article on repairing a Windows XP installation:
http://www6.tomshardware.com/howto/20050112/index.html
They discuss repairing through Recovery Console, Knoppix, and something else called BartPE I never heard of which is a miniXP pre installation environment you can run plugins off of (like norton, nero).
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I think this should fit this category. Um, how do I rid a computer of its dual windows XP boot, and keep the one that I've been working with? Does this make sense?
edit the Boot.ini file to just show Win XP... and pretend that its alllll ok!
this is the basic answer, but you can just go into System -> Advanced -> Startup and Recovery, and the System Startup section is for managing that stuff.
If you uncheck "Time to display list of operating systems", it will skip that screen and just go straight to your default OS.
you could do that, OR you could change around your boot.ini to say something funny like... Ian is gay.... and it would make you smile everytime you boot up....
^^^^^^^^^obvious googled answer....
lol, no google on that one bro
well, I don't just want the option to come up, I don't want the second installation of windows on it. How would I remove that?
By the way, thank you for your help
just delete the whole directory for the install of windows you don't want.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ googled answer again.
^^^^ googled response
ZABEL'D!!!!!!!!!!
^^^^^^^^^^^^^ cached google response (0.23 seconds)
Okay, so I just delete the whole directory? It's really that easy? I mean, I thought it could be that easy, but it really is?
so, my choices are : C:\WINDOWS or C:\WINXP (but really both are XP), and I just delete the one I don't want. Now how will I know which one is which, so I delete the right one??
why dont you drag your Documents and Settings/ your profile into one dir and grab anything else profile specfic... and combine the 2, then just delete the extra one? Give iwz a second to google for the the "technical" answer...
open a command prompt and type
echo %SystemRoot%
that's the directory that windows is running from
excellent! Thanks so much guys!
ur welcome, but dont thank e... thank google... HAHAHAHAHA
baleeted!
haha, nice. SAME
hey. touch my babies
I've also used the Ultimate Boot CD. it's pretty fantastic. I needed it for a laptop I was trying to clean and install Windows 2000 on. the system was hosed, and had no floppy drive. This has so many utilities and boot disks all contained on the CD.
ah beautiful, thank you
Knoppix rules for rescuing hosed windows machines.
cool info on BartPE, I've read a little about it (mostly for creating custom install CDs), but never saw it in action.
Yeah knoppix is really incredible, yet such a simple idea
Basically it's a choice between:
Knoppix + reinstall of XP (actually sounded like just get rid of XP in that article)
or
Actually repair XP without reinstall if possibly by using BartPE