Dell laptop problems

sickofsoyo · Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 7:21 pm Post subject: Dell laptop problems

I recently reformated my friends dell laptop due to viruses, adware, and XP home... I successfully installed XP pro, only home still shows up in the OS choice at startup. I did a COMPLETE format of the hdd so I dont know why its still coming up... do I have to delete the mbr?
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ToggleHead · TWEAKGURU Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 4360 Location: Jersey

no just edit the boot.ini

In the C: directory....show all hidden files, and all system files, and unhide protected operating system files. This is all done through folder options.

In there you will see boot.ini. Copy it, and make a back up!!!!!!!!!!!

Then open it in Notepad and you will see somthing like this:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home"

The two lines in italics, might be reversed on yours......but you get the point.

Delete this whole line:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home"

Save the file....and reboot. That should work.[/b]
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sickofsoyo · Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 5:57 am Post subject:

ah ok, thanks TH
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P4 3.2ghz
lanparty pro875b
Enermax Liberty 500 Watt Modular PSU
Sony 52X CD-RW
Samsung 120gig SATA hdd
Maxtor 100gig SATA hdd
Powmax Demon case
ATI X800 XL AIW, 525 Core, 525 mem
Creative X-Fi Platinum
PDP systems Patriot Ram 2,3,2,5 timings

sickofsoyo · Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 7:15 pm Post subject:

got it thanks...
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P4 3.2ghz
lanparty pro875b
Enermax Liberty 500 Watt Modular PSU
Sony 52X CD-RW
Samsung 120gig SATA hdd
Maxtor 100gig SATA hdd
Powmax Demon case
ATI X800 XL AIW, 525 Core, 525 mem
Creative X-Fi Platinum
PDP systems Patriot Ram 2,3,2,5 timings

ToggleHead · TWEAKGURU Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 4360 Location: Jersey

sweet....=D
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