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Strange boot options with XP Home SP3 after near fatal mistake
LockedGood Evening Sirs,
So I wanted to install XP Pro on the backup drive of an older system. I must have been way off my game because not only did I forget to disconnect the primary drive as a fail-safe measure, but I also exited BIOS without saving the changes I made to disable the primary. I run XP Home on the primary.
I ended up installing XP Pro on the primary drive all the way up to the license key entry before realizing what I had done. Once I hashed out what had happened, I was stuck with the option to boot from XP Home or XP Pro on the same partition.
So I used the advanced system settings in control panel to select XP home as the first OS to boot, and then edited the boot.ini file to remove the XP Pro setting.
Now when Windows begins to load, I have the option to boot from XP Home, or Windows (default). The Windows (default) option seems the remnants of the incomplete XP Pro install, yet after everything I’ve done here I don’t understand why it even shows any boot option besides XP Home since I edited the boot.ini file.
Any ideas?