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February 6th, 2004 14:00

one last step??

Hi again,

I made a post, a few posts back on the board, titled "restoring my dell"....and the information posted helped me out alot.  There is just one more thing i need help with.  After deleting the partitions and re-installing XP Home on my Dell 2400, it turned out to be a very sucessful clean install, but now every time the computer comes on, it comes to a dos type screen and askes me to selecet which operating system to load(boot).  There are two selections and they are both the same, Windows Xp Home Edition.  There is a timer also that if I don't select any of the two it starts up fine.  How do i fix this problem...does the computer think there are two op's on this computer?

Thanks.

  • Denny Denham

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    Posted February 6th, 2004 14:00

    kkoates,

    Yes, it does, and that is a fairly common problem. You can resolve it by editing the boot.ini file to remove the reference to the "phantom" operating system. Instructions are here.