Sounds like you may have installed another copy of XP. You can check by looking in windows explorer - depending on what you have done you may have partitioned your hard drive and the new copy will show up on another (virtual) drive - probably "D" drive. In any case you should find 2 windows directories.
As for having 2 copies of XP, at best you are chewing up disk space. At worst some 3rd party programs might get confused. Also Microsoft recommends not having dual operating systems (which I suppose???? you must fall into this category).
Probably best in your case to backup all your data files and try and uninstall the latest copy - if it fails just reformat your hard disk and start again - at least you will have your data files. If you have Norton systems works you can backup some program as well.
Good luck,
Peter
And I couldn't get Windows to start up. All I kept getting was a blue screen. So I reinstalled Windows and now when I start up I get the black screen which has 2 selections of Windows XP Home Edition. When I select the first one, I get a brand new Windows XP. When I select the second one, I get back the original with all my programs and everything. They both seem to be working fine, no errors, no problems. I'm using the new copy now, but the original works just as well. But I'm just concerned that this just aint right and could this do damage? What should I do? Thank you.
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