JonathanMortimer
IS-IT--Management
- Sep 19, 2008
- 97
It didn't happen before a few days ago, I installed as normal but when I go to boot up the machine it gives me two OS options, like there are two copies of Windows XP installed, but only the default (top) one works; the other gives a hard drive access error.
I know why the bottom one doesn't work - looking in the boot.ini file there are two entries, one for partition(1) and the other for partition(2), yet I did what I always do when installing and removed all existing partitions with a full NTFS format (to test drive integrity as much as anything else, these machines are a few years old but still good work horses). There is no second partition on the disk, I confirmed this using Acronis, only a very small area of unallocated space at the end of the drive (which is always there).
So why does this second entry appear in boot.ini, and is there anything I can do to prevent it?
Thanks!
I know why the bottom one doesn't work - looking in the boot.ini file there are two entries, one for partition(1) and the other for partition(2), yet I did what I always do when installing and removed all existing partitions with a full NTFS format (to test drive integrity as much as anything else, these machines are a few years old but still good work horses). There is no second partition on the disk, I confirmed this using Acronis, only a very small area of unallocated space at the end of the drive (which is always there).
So why does this second entry appear in boot.ini, and is there anything I can do to prevent it?
Thanks!