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?


I can't tell what your problem is from the description you've provided, but
I can assure you that the BIOS doesn't
"think there are 2 OSs on the disk." The BIOS doesn't know anything about
operating systems or how many there are, and it's not the BIOS that's asking
you choose the one to boot from; it's the Windows boot loader.

If the boot loader is giving you a choice of two operating systems, there
are two lines in boot.ini describing the two choices. So your statement that
you deleted all partitions, built a new one, and installed Windows on it
cleanly can't be correct. If you had done that, boot.ini wouldn't reference
two Windows choices.

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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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