Computer Startup Lets Me Choose Windows Professional or Home

mastavic · TweakNOOB Joined: 05 Feb 2003 Posts: 56

My friend has been having this problem for a while now, but he just told me about two or three days ago. I have seen this problem before, but I cannot remember how to fix it.

When his computer starts up, he is taken to a black screen with white text that asks him to choose if he wants to start up with Windows Professional or Windows Home. There is a timer under that that goes from about 30 seconds and counts down to 0, I believe.

Anyone know how to fix this? I did a Google search, but typing in both "Professional" and "Home" turns up way too many results that I cannot sort through.

Thanks,
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FroGGer · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2003 7:04 pm Post subject:

I had a similar problem except for some reason i had the choice between two windows xp home editions. I couldn't get rid of it and finally I had to format the drive. But there is probably a better way to fix it, so don't resort to formatting yet.

[TN] Nathan · ALMIGHTY PWNER! Joined: 14 Feb 2002 Posts: 7406

Honestly, the better fix is the clean slate.

Formatting the drive and a fresh install has a lot of benefits.
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mastavic · TweakNOOB Joined: 05 Feb 2003 Posts: 56

Isn't there any other way around this other than a clean format?

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[TN] Nathan · ALMIGHTY PWNER! Joined: 14 Feb 2002 Posts: 7406

Not that I know of.

Clean the slate, it only takes about 30 minutes to format and install windows again.
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mastavic · TweakNOOB Joined: 05 Feb 2003 Posts: 56

I got it to work!

Here's how:
Start > settings > control panel > system > advanced tab > then startup and recovery and choose default operating system then take the tick out of \"Display list of operating sytems for...\"

Thanks anyway!

Roger · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 7:39 am Post subject:

keep in mind however, that there are two OS's on that system. if one is not needed, then certainly a clean format would leave you with a lot less wasted space.
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[TN] Nathan · ALMIGHTY PWNER! Joined: 14 Feb 2002 Posts: 7406

And conflicts.
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