re: windows doesnt automatically start Monday, October 6, 2008 at 7:47 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by appleoddity (2070 messages posted) I'm not sure for the reasoning why this happens, but it is likely that the OP did do a clean reinstall. I would say that the majority of times when I reinstall a windows XP home edition system it does this. I always delete all partitions and recreate a single partition and format it, yet windows creates two entries in the boot.ini, and only the first one works. My reasoning is that windows must read the boot.ini before doing anything with the partitions, and then after creating new partitions (that are numbered differently than the originals) it re-creates the boot.ini with a second entry. If I chose to keep all existing partitions, it is my assumption, that this would not happen. It is probably because windows XP is designed to install along side other operating systems, and therefore maintains the state of the boot.ini even between clean installs. An interesting problem, and certainly an annoyance. Written in response to: re: windows doesnt automatically start (Ricer46: Monday, October 6, 2008 at 2:15 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] windows doesnt automatically start (jason: Mon, Oct 6, 2008, 10:32 am) re: windows doesnt automatically start (alex: Mon, Oct 6, 2008, 10:49 am) re: windows doesnt automatically start (Ricer46: Mon, Oct 6, 2008, 2:15 pm) re: windows doesnt automatically start (appleoddity: Mon, Oct 6, 2008, 7:47 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum