Can't do a clean install

On Oct 7, 8:16*pm, "Shenan Stanley" <newshel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> m_corbe...@juno.com wrote:
> > My install went OK but there is now a screen that comes up during
> > every boot asking which of two windows xp OS's to boot with (there
> > should only be one). I can hit enter or it counts down 30 seconds
> > and does it for me. This has never happened to me before when doing
> > a clean install. I would prefer it not do that. Anyone know how to
> > fix that?
>
> That means you did a parallel installation instead of a clean installation.
> If you had backed everything up and your intention was to truly start from
> scratch with a clean slate - you would be better off actually performing a
> clean installation now before you continue (IMHO).
>
> http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> * * *MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Wayhttp://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

I did start over last night before I read these latest posts. I had
two partitions, one was a 4 gb rescue partition (D and one was a 70
+ gb main partition (C. I deleted all partitions and created a
single c: partition, then formatted it (not the quick) NTFS. I then re-
installed Windows, never touching the keyboard. When Windows did the
final reboot guess what....two copies of XP on a black screen. I've
already re-installed all the drivers and today plan to re-install all
the docs, email files, programs I want. I don't care if it has a
parallel copy now as I've done all I can and don't want to mess with
it anymore unless it's going to cause trouble down the line. I am
intrerested in just having it boot from one or the other but not
slowing down the startup by 30 seconds. How do I change the boot.ini
file to fix that?

<m_corbelli@juno.com> wrote in message
news:c1d06423-4604-415a-90e7-024f3484113f@t18g2000prt.googlegroups.com...
On Oct 7, 8:16 pm, "Shenan Stanley" <newshel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> m_corbe...@juno.com wrote:
> > My install went OK but there is now a screen that comes up during
> > every boot asking which of two windows xp OS's to boot with (there
> > should only be one). I can hit enter or it counts down 30 seconds
> > and does it for me. This has never happened to me before when doing
> > a clean install. I would prefer it not do that. Anyone know how to
> > fix that?
>
> That means you did a parallel installation instead of a clean
> installation.
> If you had backed everything up and your intention was to truly start from
> scratch with a clean slate - you would be better off actually performing a
> clean installation now before you continue (IMHO).
>
> http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart
> Wayhttp://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

I did start over last night before I read these latest posts. I had
two partitions, one was a 4 gb rescue partition (D and one was a 70
+ gb main partition (C. I deleted all partitions and created a
single c: partition, then formatted it (not the quick) NTFS. I then re-
installed Windows, never touching the keyboard. When Windows did the
final reboot guess what....two copies of XP on a black screen. I've
already re-installed all the drivers and today plan to re-install all
the docs, email files, programs I want. I don't care if it has a
parallel copy now as I've done all I can and don't want to mess with
it anymore unless it's going to cause trouble down the line. I am
intrerested in just having it boot from one or the other but not
slowing down the startup by 30 seconds. How do I change the boot.ini
file to fix that?

Have you tried what JS suggested earlier?

On Oct 8, 7:53*am, "Olórin" <inca...@erkljrjre890aeraekj4na.com>
wrote:
> <m_corbe...@juno.com> wrote in message
>
> news:c1d06423-4604-415a-90e7-024f3484113f@t18g2000prt.googlegroups.com...
> On Oct 7, 8:16 pm, "Shenan Stanley" <newshel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > m_corbe...@juno.com wrote:
> > > My install went OK but there is now a screen that comes up during
> > > every boot asking which of two windows xp OS's to boot with (there
> > > should only be one). I can hit enter or it counts down 30 seconds
> > > and does it for me. This has never happened to me before when doing
> > > a clean install. I would prefer it not do that. Anyone know how to
> > > fix that?
>
> > That means you did a parallel installation instead of a clean
> > installation.
> > If you had backed everything up and your intention was to truly start from
> > scratch with a clean slate - you would be better off actually performing a
> > clean installation now before you continue (IMHO).
>
> >http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
>
> > --
> > Shenan Stanley
> > MS-MVP
> > --
> > How To Ask Questions The Smart
> > Wayhttp://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
> I did start over last night before I read these latest posts. I had
> two partitions, one was a 4 gb rescue partition (D and one was a 70
> + gb main partition (C. I deleted all partitions and created a
> single c: partition, then formatted it (not the quick) NTFS. I then re-
> installed Windows, never touching the keyboard. When Windows did the
> final reboot guess what....two copies of XP on a black screen. I've
> already re-installed all the drivers and today plan to re-install all
> the docs, email files, programs I want. I don't care if it has a
> parallel copy now as I've done all I can and don't want to mess with
> it anymore unless it's going to cause trouble down the line. I am
> intrerested in just having it boot from one or the other but not
> slowing down the startup by 30 seconds. How do I change the boot.ini
> file to fix that?
>
> Have you tried what JS suggested earlier?- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Yes, I missed that further up. I did what JS suggested and it worked.
Looks like I'm in business. Thanks all!

PS. I have two ISP's. One at work (Verizon) and one at home (Comcast)
and BOTH have stopped offering newsgroup service! I now have to access
newsgroups like this through Google.

m_corbelli@juno.com wrote:
> On Oct 8, 7:53 am, "Olórin" <inca...@erkljrjre890aeraekj4na.com>
> wrote:

> PS. I have two ISP's. One at work (Verizon) and one at home (Comcast)
> and BOTH have stopped offering newsgroup service! I now have to access
> newsgroups like this through Google.

No need for that. Simply use the MS news server and your favorite news
client. See:

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/ou...snewreader.htm

The news server is msnews.microsoft.com .

On Oct 8, 9:23*am, "Daave" <dcwashNOS...@myrealboxXYZ.invalid> wrote:
> m_corbe...@juno.com wrote:
> > On Oct 8, 7:53 am, "Olórin" <inca...@erkljrjre890aeraekj4na.com>
> > wrote:
> > PS. I have two ISP's. One at work (Verizon) and one at home (Comcast)
> > and BOTH have stopped offering newsgroup service! I now have to access
> > newsgroups like this through Google.
>
> No need for that. Simply use the MS news server and your favorite news
> client. See:
>
> http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/ou...snewreader.htm
>
> The news server is msnews.microsoft.com .

Yes. I now have the microsoft newsgroups. Very productive newsgroup
experience for me. Thanks!

m_corbelli@juno.com wrote:
> On Oct 8, 9:23 am, "Daave" <dcwashNOS...@myrealboxXYZ.invalid> wrote:
>> m_corbe...@juno.com wrote:
>>> On Oct 8, 7:53 am, "Olórin" <inca...@erkljrjre890aeraekj4na.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> PS. I have two ISP's. One at work (Verizon) and one at home
>>> (Comcast) and BOTH have stopped offering newsgroup service! I now
>>> have to access newsgroups like this through Google.
>>
>> No need for that. Simply use the MS news server and your favorite
>> news client. See:
>>
>> http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/ou...snewreader.htm
>>
>> The news server is msnews.microsoft.com .
>
> Yes. I now have the microsoft newsgroups. Very productive newsgroup
> experience for me. Thanks!

You're welcome.

On Wed, 8 Oct 2008 05:11:13 -0700 (PDT), "m_corbelli@juno.com"
<m_corbelli@juno.com> wrote:

> PS. I have two ISP's. One at work (Verizon) and one at home (Comcast)
> and BOTH have stopped offering newsgroup service! I now have to access
> newsgroups like this through Google.


Not at all true, and not a good idea. Google is an excellent source
for searching newsgroups, but a very poor choice, in my view, for
participating in them.

Although your experience was accessing newsgroups through your ISP,
that's by no means a requirement. There are many third-party news
servers available. Some of them charge a fee, others are free. I also
used to use to use Comcast for my general newsgroups, but recently
switch to the free Motzarella (text only, no binary groups), which
works just as well, as far as I'm concerned. For Microsoft newsgroups,
I use msnews.microsoft.com, and also use three other news servers for
specialized groups.

You use Mozilla (about which I know nothing) as your newsreader, but
let me point out that almost all news readers let you use use multiple
news servers easily. As I pointed out above, I use five servers.


--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
Please Reply to the Newsgroup

> On Oct 8, 7:53 am, "Olórin" <inca...@erkljrjre890aeraekj4na.com>
> wrote:
>> <m_corbe...@juno.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:c1d06423-4604-415a-90e7-024f3484113f@t18g2000prt.googlegroups.com...
>> On Oct 7, 8:16 pm, "Shenan Stanley" <newshel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> m_corbe...@juno.com wrote:
>>>> My install went OK but there is now a screen that comes up during
>>>> every boot asking which of two windows xp OS's to boot with (there
>>>> should only be one). I can hit enter or it counts down 30 seconds
>>>> and does it for me. This has never happened to me before when doing
>>>> a clean install. I would prefer it not do that. Anyone know how to
>>>> fix that?
>>
>>> That means you did a parallel installation instead of a clean
>>> installation.
>>> If you had backed everything up and your intention was to truly
>>> start from scratch with a clean slate - you would be better off
>>> actually performing a clean installation now before you continue
>>> (IMHO).
>>
>>> http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
>>
>>> --
>>> Shenan Stanley
>>> MS-MVP
>>> --
>>> How To Ask Questions The Smart
>>> Wayhttp://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>>
>> I did start over last night before I read these latest posts. I had
>> two partitions, one was a 4 gb rescue partition (D and one was a 70
>> + gb main partition (C. I deleted all partitions and created a
>> single c: partition, then formatted it (not the quick) NTFS. I then
>> re- installed Windows, never touching the keyboard. When Windows did
>> the final reboot guess what....two copies of XP on a black screen.
>> I've already re-installed all the drivers and today plan to
>> re-install all the docs, email files, programs I want. I don't care
>> if it has a parallel copy now as I've done all I can and don't want
>> to mess with it anymore unless it's going to cause trouble down the
>> line. I am intrerested in just having it boot from one or the other
>> but not slowing down the startup by 30 seconds. How do I change the
>> boot.ini file to fix that?
>>
>> Have you tried what JS suggested earlier?- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
> Yes, I missed that further up. I did what JS suggested and it worked.
> Looks like I'm in business. Thanks all!
>
> PS. I have two ISP's. One at work (Verizon) and one at home (Comcast)
> and BOTH have stopped offering newsgroup service! I now have to access
> newsgroups like this through Google.

Verizon has not stopped offering newsgroup service. They stopped
offering the alt.* newsgroups, which is a lot of newsgroups. There are
lots of other free and pay servers where you can get all your fav
groups; just look for them. Google is pretty much a mess for anything
useful on a day to day basis IMO.