"RiderDude" <RiderDude@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1B3E8E82-CE04-4E86-A49A-5453ABD8EBAF@microsoft.com...
> one of my dumb kids infested my dell dimension 2400 with everyspyware
program
> known to man (and a few unknown ones). i tried washing them out, and
> scrubbing them out, but the stains were still there. i ended up doing a
clean
> install of XP from the disks which i miracuously found in the attic.
deleted
> all partitions and built a single new NTFS partition and nestled XP snugly
> therein. problem is, now when i boot, BIOS thinks there are 2 OSs on the
disk
> and asks me to choose the one i want to boot from. one works (i'm assuming
> this is the newly installed version), the other doesnt (i'm assuming it's
a
> ghost of the old OS rattling around like Jacob Marley). how can i get rid
of
> Marley's ghost?

What makes you think it's the BIOS that sees two
partitions? Wouldn't be the WinXP boot loader instead,
having two menu lines (not two partitions)? Try this:

- Click Start / Run
- Type notepad c:\boot.ini
- Get rid of the offending line