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Seanydude678   05-03-2008 at 07:31:28 PM

whenever i boot anymore i get a choice to boot from xp setup or xp home, and since it automatically chooses setup and i have about 4 seconds to respond, AAAND my usb keyboard isn't picked up at that point, it gets annoying. I'm pretty sure that it's an incomplete setup since when i boot it from setup it gets the BSOD. (blue screen of death). I've read things about how the setup files are stored on the hard drive, but I'm not sure which ones are which and I don't want to mess anything up. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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WR2   05-03-2008 at 08:01:27 PM
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Do you have the Windows Setup CD in your DVD/CD drive?
You can also edit the boot.ini file to
(1) remove the XP setup
(2) change the amount of time for the bootloader timeout

How to edit the Boot.ini file in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289022

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Seanydude678   05-03-2008 at 08:12:02 PM
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editing the boot.ini file was a huge help, thanks alot :] no more problems with boots

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gomerpile   05-03-2008 at 08:12:12 PM
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fdisk /mbr in the command f8 for boot options
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/69013

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