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Two Installations of Windows XP Show up in BIOS

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Downgrading Windows Vista Home to Windows XP SP3. I was originally shooting for a dual boot, but I've given up on that and am willing to just settle for XP.

After a few botched tries, and a couple of reformats I have gotten XP fully installed and functioning on C: When I go into disk management I see a C: listed as primary system partition and then an unallocated partition with the letter H: When I try and change drive letters it does not give me options for D: or F: G: .

First, I would like to clean up the letters on the drive partitions and make everything neat and tidy.

Second, when I boot the machine up it lists two installations of Windows XP, one of them will boot, and the other one will not. How do I get rid of this other lingering installation?

I've tried to give as many details as I can I have a feeling it's probably an easy fix, so hopefully somebody can point me in the right direction.

Thanks
 
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and welcome to the Forum

What size is the unallocated partiton? When you installed, did you delete all partitions then create new one(s)

For the Multiple Boot Paths:

Try this . . Click on Start . . Run . . type msconfig . . click on the Boot Ini tab and click on Check all boot paths . . if it comes back with one is invalid, click Fix invalid boot paths
 
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