Two operating systems !

HI all

Hope someone can help

A computer that I am sorting out was so mashed up by a friend of mine I decided that the best course of action would to to format HDD and reinastall windows.

Sounds drastic I know but I have never encountered a fairly modern PC in such a state !

Anyway - I didnt format disk prior to using the Windows instalation disk as I know that there is an option to format during the set up procedure.

When I used the Windows set up disk, sure enough it said that there was already an operating system on the HDD. I told the system to format the whole HDD using NTFS.

Windows installed fine however when the PC starts up it seems to pick up on two operating systems and asks to choose which one to use !

One works fine and the other doesnt boot at all.

I am not sure how it can be seeing any trace of the old O/S as I formated the whole disk and deleted all of the old partitions !

Anyone got any ideas as to how I sort this out ?

Cheers

 

Thanks that fixed it

out of curiosity ? do you know where it got the corupt boot up path from ?

I thought when Win XP set up formated the disk eveything was deleted ?

 

Did you do a quick format or a full format? I find that the quick format doesn't quite format the drive as it should.

Typically, I'll wipe out the drive with the handy fdisk command from a dos boot disk.
Or use, DBAN:

http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4596

Also, besides using the msconfig command one can right click on "My computer", then select properties, then select the advanced tab. Click settings near "Startup and recovery", then under "system startup" there should be a button for editing the boot.ini files.

 

Well it was a full format !

Ah well suppose it just one of those things

Thanks for all the responses - Major Geeks Rules