Hey people,

this sage began about 2 weeks ago when my computer was running perfectly with XP Pro and i just got my new FTTH connection here at home. My bright idea is to load vista and from there everything went pear shaped! Vista basically gave up havlf way through the install and corrupted the boot file or whatever it was, anyway i lost pretty much everything on c: no biggie thats why we make back ups! Anyway, i got it all sorted out by removing all the drives and just keeping one drive in the machine and partitioned it off so i now have vista and XP loaded on them.

As i was upgrading xp1 to xp sp2 my computer decided to do a data fart and died halfway through the upgrade, given that i had troubles like this over the past few days i created a few rescue disks they did work and the computer eventually updated itself to sp2 but has left a legacy of data road kill on when i boot up for example:

In the windows boot manager i have 3 entries

1) Windows XP

2) Microsoft windows Vista

3) Microsoft windows xp pro set up

and of course the choices if i hit tab etc etc etc....

if i go into the XP pro setup, i'm given instructions

1) Insert your windows installation disk etc etc etc restart
2) choose languagesettings click next
3) click repair your computer.


* if you do not have the disk contact system admin etc etc...

file: \$LDR$

Status: 0xc000000f

*the selected entry could not be loaded because it is missing or corrupt.

now after i hit enter after viewing this screen it returns me back to the top three choices menu again.



end of problem #1


Problem #2

If i choose XP at the start i get another logon screen , on this screen i have 2 choices and they are

1) Micky soft XP PRo
2) Micky Soft XP Pro setup.

And if i go for the setup my machine reboots and i am back to square one.


At this moment i have XP sorted out and up to date, and Vista is working well too. I do however have this booting problem (I have pic's if anyone wants to see em) and i would like to if possible to just delete the setup thingie from the boot ini, i don't know if it can be done, and i dont really know how to do it to be perfectly honest. i did look for the start up entries in Vista with easy bcd. Unfortunately no joy there!

i was just going to delete them from there if it would let me,

So can ayone please help me here??

Cheers