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LoneWolf121188

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Jun 7, 2007
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Longmont, CO
When I hold alt and start my computer, I see my Mac HD and two Windows partitions, not one. Only one works though, the other goes to a setup screen. It's leftover from a failed windows installation. The problem is, I have no idea how to get rid of it. Any idea where those files are or how to edit the boot manager so it doesn't show up? Note that I don't actually have two bootable windows partitions, just one...

Code:
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh Scratch       400.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:       Microsoft Basic Data Windows Scratch         99.8 GB    disk0s3
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *120.0 GB   disk1
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            85.9 GB    disk1s2
   3:       Microsoft Basic Data Windows                 33.8 GB    disk1s3

Disk 0 is my 500GB HDD, disk 1 is my SSD. Both have two partitions: an HFS one and an NTFS one. The ones on the SSD are bootable, the ones on the HDD are not. So where's this mystery 2nd bootable windows partition?
 
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