Inherited PC

GreenNotM

BTW Your recovery partition may enable you to restore XP Pro - what make and model of PC is it ? Somebody may have the prodedure -

jasmin10

just roobotin to see what happens when I select xp pro

GreenNotM

usb key ?

albertross_2

have you gone through xp home product activation yet?

jasmin10

I have gone through the activation key for xp home. I am looking at the boot.ini file and it seems to sow it also ine the c: drive so I think I may have copied over the top of xp pro and there all the files are mixed. How can I reinstall it but get rid of the old o/s first?

jasmin10

Sorry if I seem to be rushing through this I have a wriggly 2 year old on my lap shouting for dinner.

Looking at this perhaps I should start from scratch and reinstall everything but making sure I get rid of it all first. I assume it's not as easy as formating a drive

GreenNotM

look for 2 "windows" directories on the drives - the boot ini will be like

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" <<<< edit this to be your boot.ini

Your XP home will be the one with the newest files - XP Pro will have no recent files ... easy way to check --- Recovery D may allow you to get XP Pro back unless ur friend was a deleter of anything in sight ....

jasmin10

ok so delete the send line so my boot ini file looks like yours above right?

GreenNotM

NOOOOOO - use the one I pasted - as template -- so we can see the pc's boot.ini that you have there --- trying to save you typing ....

jasmin10

Sorry folks but I'm going to have to go and get the my little girl fed and look as though I have done something before hubby comes home. I will check back for your instructions laters. Thank you all so much for your help.

Speak to you later.

Sam