Windows thinks there are 2 OS installed !!

kilohawk · 28 Dec 2011 at 11:10

Hi all, hope you're having a nice Christmas

(i am reusing the 1 year old drive from my old PC )

I've just finished building my PC and booted it using an old BLANK sata drive which i used to instal windows and copy the data from my old pc Sata drive in order to do a clean instal.
I have since copied all of the data to the spare drive, as well as installed window son the spare drive.
(forgetting to disconnect the old spare drive)
I installed windows on the 1 year old drive, then copied all data, re installed programs etc. and during all the restarts i never had a problem, but then on one restart a message came up during the reboot saying BOOTMGR missing (or something along those lines) so i used startup repair and all is well apart from;
NOTE i was using two drives, both with the same version of windows during this setup.
when booting the machine, after the bios messages and the post beep, i keep getting an option of two ''windows 7 (recovered)'' to choose from.
i have formatted the spare drive/removed it completely and yet i still have the option upon startup :confused:

..........Help....... :mad:

please.

I'm using Windows 7 Professional 64 bit on an asus p8z68 v pro.

the old spare drive is not as good as the one from my old PC so thats why I'm re using it

thankyou!

d_brennen · 28 Dec 2011 at 11:13

Run msconfig, select the Boot tab, Check all boot paths

kilohawk · 28 Dec 2011 at 11:17

cheers for the reply!can you please give instructions for a sort of beginner

d_brennen · 28 Dec 2011 at 11:34

From the Start menu search box type msconfig, accept the UAC popup and the msconfig window will pop up. Select the Boot tab and click on Check All Boot Paths. It should sort your problem

kilohawk · 28 Dec 2011 at 13:07

thanks!
however, i had no 'check all boot paths' option, but there were two win7 boot options listed with 'current' next to one of them, i just deleted the one with nothing next to it.

it worked a treat, I never knew this msconfig existed! do i use this to stop things opening on startup ?

Burnsy2023 · 28 Dec 2011 at 13:50

kilohawk said:
thanks!
however, i had no 'check all boot paths' option, but there were two win7 boot options listed with 'current' next to one of them, i just deleted the one with nothing next to it.

I think that's what d_brennen was trying to say

kilohawk said:
it worked a treat, I never knew this msconfig existed! do i use this to stop things opening on startup ?

You can do. I prefer Autoruns though.

gillywibble · 29 Dec 2011 at 09:57

kilohawk said:
it worked a treat, I never knew this msconfig existed! do i use this to stop things opening on startup ?

You can do, although I prefer Ccleaner because I can also delete the start up path out of the registry at the same time.

d_brennen · 30 Dec 2011 at 11:33

kilohawk said:
thanks!
however, i had no 'check all boot paths' option, but there were two win7 boot options listed with 'current' next to one of them, i just deleted the one with nothing next to it.

it worked a treat, I never knew this msconfig existed! do i use this to stop things opening on startup ?

msconfig is a handy tool but be careful with it

The actual wording may be different as I do most Windows maintenance on auto pilot, there is an option to check the boot paths in there. Had you deleted the wrong path you would have likely made your system unbootable!

Easily fixed with a startup repair from the DVD but off putting unless you know!