problem reinstalling xp off recovery disk

[grey_wulff1]

I have a new Dell computer. I decided to reinstall the OS shortly after i got it. I put in recovery disk and went through the prompts. I chose same partiton that other OS was on. Said it couldnt run two OS at the same timeand might cause conflicts. I chose to delete old OS of course and reinstalled. Now it runs very badly. when it boots up it has two choices to choose from: run computer with winxp home or run computer with winxp home. I think it has TWO operating systems on it. How do i do a complete format and reinstall?

by the way (recovery disks are a waste)

[zen]

Its common to have 2 o\s listed after doing a reinstall. If you want you can right click My computer, pick properties, advanced, startup and recovery and uncheck display operating systems for __seconds.

Did you use NTFS or Fat32?

[grey_wulff1]

i am not sure which one i used, i know its the one with the most hard drive space alloted, 39gig.

bottom line is, the computer is not running right since reinistall, im going to have to dump it again tonight. shouldnt be freezing and jerking around. I need a clean install

[MTAtech]

Look in you boot.ini file located in C:\. It should be obvious.