Newbie's question after reiinstalling WinXP

[Satoshi]

Today, Windows XP was re-installed after re-formatting. I followed the
instruction seen on screen. When the computer was booted, I am getting
following screen:

Please select the operating system to start.

Windows XP Professional
Windows XP Professional.

****Enter to choose*******

This screen stays for 27 seconds.

I wonder how I can get rid of this screen and what causes this problem.
Your assistance would be appreciate.

Satoshi

[Shiva]

This screen usually comes up when you have more than one OS installed (in
your case two instllations of Win XP Pro) on your PC. This screen can be
avoided by editing a file called boot.ini in the root of your boot drive. To
know more about how to do it, refer to this article
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;289022 (look at
'Removing an Operating System' section)

HTH

"Satoshi" > wrote in message
...
Today, Windows XP was re-installed after re-formatting. I followed the
instruction seen on screen. When the computer was booted, I am getting
following screen:

Please select the operating system to start.

Windows XP Professional
Windows XP Professional.

****Enter to choose*******

This screen stays for 27 seconds.

I wonder how I can get rid of this screen and what causes this problem.
Your assistance would be appreciate.

Satoshi

[Satoshi]

Hi,

Thank you. I followed the instruction. It worked. Great!!!
You saved my life!!!

My questions is how to avoid this mess in future in case I re-install WinXP.
Thank you.

Regards,

Satoshi

[Richard]

Hi Satoshi,

To avoid this error just make sure that you install the os to the same
partition it is installed on. In this case you must have had Windows
installed on one partition or disk and the reinstall went to a different
partition.

Richard

"Satoshi" > wrote in message
...
> Hi,
>
> Thank you. I followed the instruction. It worked. Great!!!
> You saved my life!!!
>
> My questions is how to avoid this mess in future in case I re-install
WinXP.
> Thank you.
>
> Regards,
>
> Satoshi
>
>

[Satoshi]

Thanks.
You are right.
But I have no idea what is going on.
I thought when reformatted, previous WinXP files were wiped out.
It does not seem so.
That's the problem for newbies.

Thanks.

Satoshi

[Shiva]

Another solution to avoid this is to format the drive in which an OS
installation already exists. When you install WinXP, the setup process will
automatically detect any existing OS and ask you what to do. You can choose
to format that drive and install WinXP.

Do this only when you are really sure you don't want the existing OS.

"Satoshi" > wrote in message
...
Hi,

Thank you. I followed the instruction. It worked. Great!!!
You saved my life!!!

My questions is how to avoid this mess in future in case I re-install WinXP.
Thank you.

Regards,

Satoshi

[Satoshi]

Now, I found a subtle inconvenience. That has to do with my ignorance in
hardware system.

After re-installation of Win XP, what I found was that it created anotehr
drive.
My computer used to have 3 drives: A, C and D (CD ROM).
After re-format and re-insallatin of WinXP, I see another D drive which
appears to be a very smalldrive.
I could not figure out how this happened.
During formatting, I formatted NTSF (sic?). That' all what I remember.

Could you please tell me where I made a mistake in creating two partiions
instead of one paration?

It seems that re-installation creates lot of problem which I had never such
an secperience with Win95 and Win 98.

Regards,

Satoshi

[Shiva]

You might have chosen by mistake to create a new partition during WinXP
setup. So, the setup program created a new partition and assigned it D.

"Satoshi" > wrote in message
...
Now, I found a subtle inconvenience. That has to do with my ignorance in
hardware system.

After re-installation of Win XP, what I found was that it created anotehr
drive.
My computer used to have 3 drives: A, C and D (CD ROM).
After re-format and re-insallatin of WinXP, I see another D drive which
appears to be a very smalldrive.
I could not figure out how this happened.
During formatting, I formatted NTSF (sic?). That' all what I remember.

Could you please tell me where I made a mistake in creating two partiions
instead of one paration?

It seems that re-installation creates lot of problem which I had never such
an secperience with Win95 and Win 98.

Regards,

Satoshi

[Sharon F]

Are you sure you made that other partition? There would have been quite a
few questions appearing during setup that you would have had to answer for
this to happen. If your Windows was preinstalled by the manufacturer, it's
possible that the small partition contains a copy of the Windows setup files
and is intended for recovery and repairs.

Take another look. Do you have one or two Windows folders on C? If this is
the case, you can use Start> Run. Type in %winpath% and click OK. Explorer
will open with the focus on the Windows folder that you are currently using.

The other one (the folder that Windows Explorer does not open to) is the old
installation. You could delete it to save space.

If you do, you may have a program or two that needs to be repaired. These
would be programs that tossed a few DLL files during their setup into the
old Windows folder. If you run into any of those (they'll complain about
missing files), repair them by reinstalling them to the same folders they
are currently located in.


--
Sharon F
Microsoft MVP, Windows - Shell/User

Satoshi wrote:
> Now, I found a subtle inconvenience. That has to do with my ignorance in
> hardware system.
>
> After re-installation of Win XP, what I found was that it created anotehr
> drive.
> My computer used to have 3 drives: A, C and D (CD ROM).
> After re-format and re-insallatin of WinXP, I see another D drive which
> appears to be a very smalldrive.
> I could not figure out how this happened.
> During formatting, I formatted NTSF (sic?). That' all what I remember.
>
> Could you please tell me where I made a mistake in creating two partiions
> instead of one paration?
>
> It seems that re-installation creates lot of problem which I had never
such
> an secperience with Win95 and Win 98.
>
> Regards,
>
> Satoshi

[Satoshi]

"Richard" > wrote in message
...
> Hi Satoshi,
>
> To avoid this error just make sure that you install the os to the same
> partition it is installed on. In this case you must have had Windows
> installed on one partition or disk and the reinstall went to a different
> partition.
>

During installation, this is something not clear to me. To me, everything
on C-drive, including pre-existing WinXP is wiped out during formatting.
Now it does not seem so.

>you install the os to the same partition it is installed on

Please advise me how to figure out whether I am installing WinXP on the same
different partition. Thanks.

Satoshi