os problems....

j.woody

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hi, ill guess ill start with the story... basically my dads laptop stopped working (my mum dropped it) so i thought i take a look at it.... it seemed that there was something wrong with the hd so i installed xp on it by using my computer. then i put the hd back in my dads laptop and guess what.... that wasnt the problem... so i gave up(lol). then i turned on my computer and it came up with 2 os choices... both were windows xp. i entered the first os and it said it didnt have a hd... (my dads laptop hd). ok so i went into the 2nd windows xp option and it worked. but after a couple of days that os choice screen started annoying me. so i looked it up on interenet to see how to stop it. so i left clicked on my computer, went to properties and then into the advanced tab. then startup and recovery settings...

(now here is when i messed up... Internet said to disable the os choice menu), i had to click on the os system that i wanted to cancel and to uncheck *the time to display list of operating systems*. But both of them had exactly the same name. 50/50 so i guessed and it resulted in an EPIC FAIL!!! i reseted the computer and it said no hd detected blah blah blah etc.....

so what should i do?? i dont want to re-install xp since i have a lot of programs and stuff.

could i re check that box and uncheck the other?? please help!!!

thanks james
 
you would need to boot into the system some how. i think that you can do it with the recovery console. and then change the values that are in boot.ini
 
i can access the hd by using my bros comp, but i dont have any idea which file it is, where to find it, etc... but i dont know how the recovery console works or even if i can access it.
 
Boot from a CD, pick repair. At prompt type "bootcfg /rebuild" without quotes. Follow prompts (roughly yes then 1) Reboot.
 
what to i type when it says

Enter OS Load options

????

nevermind looked it up :) thanks its working and that annoying os menu is gone :)

thanks a bunch, reps coming your way!!!
 
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