Help! Cant get rid of XPress 2 on bootup

I have just built a new system with a GA-965P-S3 motherboard. The
system is working fine except for one problem. Every time I boot up,
it goes through the normal system messages and then stops.

It displays, "Please Install Xpress Recovery2 from Gigabyte CD Title.
Press any key to continue". It then pauses for me to hit a key before
I can boot into Windows XP.

How can I get rid of this message so it boots right to XP?

I tried installing Xpress Recovery 2 (latest version right off the
Gigabyte website), but it won't install. There is probably not enough
room in the leftover space on my 200gb drive (8 Mb free).

Can't I just run without Xpress and elimate this message? Please help.

Thanks,
Bob

Now things are worse:

I figured out how to get Xpress 2 installed (the instructions suck). I
resized my main partition to leave 10gb of unallocated space at the
end of my drive.

I got Xpress2 installed, and saved a backup of my XP OS. Here is the
problem:

Everytime I boot my system it goes right into XPress 2. I can't boot
XP anymore!

Any help would be appreciated.


On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 20:19:03 GMT, Bob W
wrote:

I have just built a new system with a GA-965P-S3 motherboard. The
system is working fine except for one problem. Every time I boot up,
it goes through the normal system messages and then stops.

It displays, "Please Install Xpress Recovery2 from Gigabyte CD Title.
Press any key to continue". It then pauses for me to hit a key before
I can boot into Windows XP.

How can I get rid of this message so it boots right to XP?

I tried installing Xpress Recovery 2 (latest version right off the
Gigabyte website), but it won't install. There is probably not enough
room in the leftover space on my 200gb drive (8 Mb free).

Can't I just run without Xpress and elimate this message? Please help.

Thanks,
Bob

Use FDISK to set you XP partition as active.

"Bob W" wrote in message
...
Now things are worse:

I figured out how to get Xpress 2 installed (the instructions suck). I
resized my main partition to leave 10gb of unallocated space at the
end of my drive.

I got Xpress2 installed, and saved a backup of my XP OS. Here is the
problem:

Everytime I boot my system it goes right into XPress 2. I can't boot
XP anymore!

Any help would be appreciated.


On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 20:19:03 GMT, Bob W
wrote:

I have just built a new system with a GA-965P-S3 motherboard. The
system is working fine except for one problem. Every time I boot up,
it goes through the normal system messages and then stops.

It displays, "Please Install Xpress Recovery2 from Gigabyte CD Title.
Press any key to continue". It then pauses for me to hit a key before
I can boot into Windows XP.

How can I get rid of this message so it boots right to XP?

I tried installing Xpress Recovery 2 (latest version right off the
Gigabyte website), but it won't install. There is probably not enough
room in the leftover space on my 200gb drive (8 Mb free).

Can't I just run without Xpress and elimate this message? Please help.

Thanks,
Bob

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:11:18 -0600, "Mike Holder"
wrote:

Use FDISK to set you XP partition as active.


I can't run FDISK. It will no longer let me boot from any other device
while the hard disk is installed. This is a bug in the BIOS confirmed
by Gigabyte Tech support. (See my follow up post - Warning Bios bug
can render hard drive unusable)