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gt500kr
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_ 		10. February 2008 @ 17:55 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I have one hard drive but every time I turn on my computer it asks me if I want to boot Windows XP Professional or Windows XP Professional. The first one brings me to my computer with all my files on it. This is the one I am using now. The second choice, if I select it, says that it is corrupt and needs a boot disk. How do I get rid of this "second" XP and make my computer boot directly to my working XP. I tried Repairing the main XP (the one i want to keep) with no luck. Is there a way I can fix this problem without losing my data or software? Please help. any questions feel free to ask.
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BigDK
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_ 		10. February 2008 @ 18:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Looks like you've done a reload and not erased the old partition
You can either do a full reload again deleting both partitions and setting the drive as one full partition, or delete/format the second partition.
Just make sure you get the right one.
Best thing to do would be to back up any sensitive data before starting the process.
I use Acronis V11 Home, you can download that and get 1 month trial, long enough to do what you need.
Then do a Back Up rather than Clone, you have to Clone a whole disk but you can backup just a single partition. Once you back it up, do a Recovery but recover to the complete partition after doing a format.
You can backup to DVD and then reload the image to HDD without having to do a complete install first.


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gt500kr
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_ 		11. February 2008 @ 14:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Could you supply a link to the trial version. All search results on google are torrents. Also would Acronis V11 be better than windows backup. How do I reload it back to Hard Drive Disk? Do I reload it before or after I reinstall XP Pro?
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_ 		11. February 2008 @ 14:43 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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dougal79
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_ 		11. February 2008 @ 17:05 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Exact same thing happened with me as well.
I already had XP Pro installed on 1 drive,
& then upgraded to Vista.
All went fine, until i realised i wasnt keen on Vista.
Too many bugs & even viewing my own files was a task.
I then tried to install XP Pro on a different hard drive,
so i had XP & Vista to dual boot.
That failed & i was unable to boot up at all.
I decided to install XP Pro on a different hard drive.
After doing this i noticed there were 2 versions of XP Pro.
When i tried booting up as normal, it would fail.
It would then ask the version of Windows i want to use.
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