[Bosox3]

Im just trying to see which is better to do?
I tried to repair my Xp but I get the message that the version im running is newer than the cd..so this is my last hope before I go back to 2000.

[Osiris]

you need to boot from the cd not autoplay from within windows and you wont get that message

[Bosox3]

I would do that..but I dont have the original disk....and the disk I do have seemed to mess up things more by trying to install SP3 on my machine.

[Osiris]

so you are saying that you can boot from it because you install sp3? why did you install it for?

[Bosox3]

I dont have the original bootable disk..so A friend gave me a copy of what I thought was his xp pro bootable...so that I can repair the probs I was having ..But it ended up installing sp3 on my machine. I stopped before it could install all the way...now my machine makes me decided which xp pro I want to start from.
One goes into sp3..the other one takes me to my original xp pro.

[Osiris]

log into the working os, then go to msconfig>boot.ini and click check all boot paths and click ok to remove the invalid entry