Only one hard drive with one partition and setup as primary master
and booting from HD(0)??

A Clean install would not give a dual boot option!!

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"RiderDude" wrote:

> 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?