Windows XP loading question

[nfpgasmask]

No big deal, I was just curious

Bart

[Ruflyf]

Cool, thx for the quick info, btw I am thinking they will be in the order that they are listed on the screen, but how screwed am I if I delete the wrong one?

The top line is:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect

The next one is:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

On bootup I have to choose the bottom one, so I am assuming it would be the same here.....I guess I could always change the text that is displayed just to be on the safe side.

[nfpgasmask]

Yes, I believe that you should delete the line for the one that YOU DO NOT choose during startup. I do not think you will be hosed either way though, but then again, I never tried deleting the wrong one

And just as an FYI, one thing to consider, if you reload a lot, is to buy a second hard drive and store all your data on it, and keep the main drive (usually C for the OS and for all your applications. This way, when you need to reload, you can safely format C: and install Windows again leaving your second drive with all your data alone. I like to reload about every 6 months myself, and what I did is just like what I said above, but after I initially installed a clean copy of the OS and all my applications, I used Ghost to create an "image" of my C: drive. So now when I want to reload, I can do it fast and not have to re-install/setup all my applications again. At most, I just need to do a Windows update and a mail restore (this is the only "data" I keep on C.

I hope that made sense....

Bart

Cool, thx for the quick info, btw I am thinking they will be in the order that they are listed on the screen, but how screwed am I if I delete the wrong one?

The top line is:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect

The next one is:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

On bootup I have to choose the bottom one, so I am assuming it would be the same here.....I guess I could always change the text that is displayed just to be on the safe side.

[transio]

Just a PS:

You may want to consider investing in Norton Ghost. It'll save you loads of time over reinstalling everything. Just do a clean install of all your software, patches, and set everything up the way you like it, then Ghost your whole system onto a backup drive and you're set. Just make sure to keep your data files separate from system files.

[nfpgasmask]

Yup, thats exactly what I do! Ghost rocks.

Bart