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.
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.
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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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.
