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CaffeinePowered Mad Hatter   Posts: 12,998 Joined: Mar 2008 |
12-06-2008, 11:26 AM
Alright, so I have minor issue, as some of you may remember, my XP install got fucked some time back, well I managed to fix it. However I did not fix it without starting another XP installation. I thought this would go away after powering down my computer but it wrote something to hard drive and I would like to remove it.
On my boot menu it gives me the option of "XP Installation process", if you go into this, it just errors out. Normally I wouldn't care but for whatever reason, its defaulting to this on boot, so I can't do what I normally do and just turn on my computer and walk away. I already checked the boot manager in vista and vista is selected as 'default', so something is over-riding it. Any help/suggestions would be appreciated ![[Image: caffsighl7.jpg]](http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/5918/caffsighl7.jpg) Â![[Image: 1184299259221.gif]](http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x284/CaffeinePower/1184299259221.gif) Sig by Joel |
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Benito Mussolini 1 More!   Posts: 2,644 Joined: May 2008 |
12-06-2008, 01:26 PM
Throw computer through window.
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Geoff Real World Azn Posts: 3,921 Joined: Apr 2008 |
12-06-2008, 01:40 PM
(12-06-2008, 11:26 AM)CaffeinePowered link Wrote: Alright, so I have minor issue, as some of you may remember, my XP install got fucked some time back, well I managed to fix it. However I did not fix it without starting another XP installation. I thought this would go away after powering down my computer but it wrote something to hard drive and I would like to remove it. Back up data, delete + reinstall. (10-06-2011, 04:24 AM)Vandamguy link Wrote:just ignore everything Geoff posts its always trolling or ignorant drivel |
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HeK Rotartsinimda  Posts: 4,183 Joined: Jun 2015 |
12-06-2008, 04:16 PM
edit c:\boot.ini
Remove unneeded entries. |
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zaneyard Made with Whole Gainz (tm)   Posts: 6,930 Joined: Jun 2008 |
12-06-2008, 05:39 PM
(04-09-2013, 11:24 PM)Dr. Zaius link Wrote:well i'm not really understanding how it's faster internet. and like google just magically rolls outs this stuff and it's 100 times faster than my internet? why? that doesn't set off any alarms to anyone? (11-07-2012, 11:15 PM)at0m link Wrote:I MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE OVERINDULGED ON RUM AND COKES AT OUTBACK STEAKHOUSE |
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CaffeinePowered Mad Hatter Posts: 12,998 Joined: Mar 2008 |
12-06-2008, 05:59 PM
(12-06-2008, 04:16 PM)HeK link Wrote: edit c:\boot.ini Vista does not have boot.ini Hence my problem, the place most google searches are pointing me to isn't helping  Edit: Ran the manager, and it did not show the XP installation process :| ÂSig by Joel
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HeK Rotartsinimda Posts: 4,183 Joined: Jun 2015 |
12-06-2008, 07:44 PM
(12-06-2008, 05:59 PM)CaffeinePowered link Wrote: Vista does not have boot.ini Yes, Vista is your problem. Try booting off the CD and reinstalling the MBR. In XP it is FixMBR, for Vista follow this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392 |
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Vandamguy Guest |
12-06-2008, 08:19 PM
yup
hek's got you covered |
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[fr31ns]Karrde The Handy Murse Posts: 2,655 Joined: May 2008 |
12-07-2008, 03:25 PM
Vista doesn't have any sort of proper autoexec boot thingy?
<+Karrde> welp, time to learn some basic patterning skills <@Negate> 12121212121212121212 <@Negate> there is a simple pattern <+Karrde> I changed my mind. Gonna cosplay as a gay demon from hell and get negate raped instead XD <+Caffeine`work> Karrde: Gay demon? Why would you need to cosplay just go as yourself <+FlyingMongoose> Caffeine`work: Karrde would actually have to tone it down some. |
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CaffeinePowered Mad Hatter Posts: 12,998 Joined: Mar 2008 |
12-07-2008, 03:31 PM
Managed to fix it, had to edit boot.ini in XP, everything's back to normal
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HeK Rotartsinimda Posts: 4,183 Joined: Jun 2015 |
12-07-2008, 11:35 PM
So there was infact, a boot.ini?
You must have been using the XP bootloader in that case. |
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Vandamguy Guest |
12-08-2008, 12:24 AM
indoobitably
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CaffeinePowered Mad Hatter Posts: 12,998 Joined: Mar 2008 |
12-08-2008, 06:39 AM
(12-07-2008, 11:35 PM)HeK link Wrote: So there was infact, a boot.ini? Yes and no, it seems like vista works this way... Computer boots, detects vista and XP, Vista's boot sector gets priority, so it loads its boot manager. Which then grabs the boot.ini for any information on XP. When I attempted that XP re-install it only wrote to XP's boot sector, so Vista's was clean, but XP's needed to be cleaned. The thing that threw me for a loop was that Vista writes a comment line into XP's boot.ini that basically says 'don't edit this shit in XP, do it through the vista boot management program'. So I go there and the entry for the XP install isn't there, but regular XP is. If I had figured that out in the first place I probably wouldn't have posted this thread.
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