I reinstalled a new installation dell SP2 XP Home Edition on hard-drive,now when i reboot 2 XP Home Edition show on screen,1st one is the new SP2 I installed, 2nd one is SP1 original factory installed corrupted disk/root and want to remove it from hard-drive or copy data off to a usb flash drive/dvd-cd.tryed of sudden death stop screen popping-up after a restart ?
Sound like you have two versions of the operating system out there. Not sure what your question is. If you want to remove the old version you should have done that while you were doing the installation. That would have been easy by just telling the system to do it for you.
Now you will probably need some type of partitioning software and i'm not sure if you just delete it if it will cause problems when you try to boot because windows knows it's out there.
If I were you, I would just reinstall windows and clean the disk of everything. It shows you what it finds out there as far as operating systems, so just delete them both, then do a quick NTFS format of the drive and reinstall windows.
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you need the video and audio driver disc that came with the pc also
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generally all computers can handle a secondary hard drive. i myself am a dell tech. why not try to increase the wattage output of your power supply from the present 200 or 250 watts to at least 300 or 350 watts to give enough provisions for additional devices that will be connected to your computer. normally a hard drive will get burned or fried because of a loose power cable connection. data cable will never fry your hard drive. try running the hard drive diagnostics if it passes then it should work well. try also using chkdsk /r in the command prompt to fix your hard drive if the damage is not that extensive.
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Hi Mark,
External drives have come a long way and run almost as fast as many
internal drives. If your need for extra hard drive space is pretty
much driven by the Microsoft Flight Simulator game, you could get by
with using an external drive. A few things, though: Make sure your
system is supporting USB 2.0 (it should be) and that the drive runs at
least 5400rpm. External HDD's run off standard 120v AC power.
Otherwise, if you want to get an internal drive, you can certainly get
another ATA-133 drive. But SATA is faster and your computer may
support it. The D530 CMT (convertible mini-tower) definitely does. But
there is also the D530 SFF (small form factor), and D530 USD (ultra
slim desktop)--not sure if those are rigged for SATA support.
As for maximum hard disk size supported, that's up to the operating system (e.g. Windows XP vs. Vista). You likely won't need any bios updates because of a new hard drive installation. However, its not a bad idea to review the BIOS update release notes to see what they're addressing.
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Hello Wademyd,
It seems that the installation CD that you have is not a bootable CD.. must be old one.
Please down load the boot disk for windows from http://www.bootdisk.com or follow the Microsoft article link given below:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310994
Do not be intimidated by the article, although it looks big but there is very little that you need to do, rest of it is general instructions like where can you order a new CD from etc...
OR
Simple solution is to borrow Bootable Windows XP installation disk and install it using the serial Key that has been given to you.
Please let me know if that helps and please rate the solution if it helped you.. it will not cost you anything but will make a difference for me :)
All the best and kindly let me know in case you need any further assistance.
Regards,
Srinivas
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