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The MBR is the first sector on your hard drive, which contains information on how to boot your operating system.

When you format or delete a partition on your hard drive, it doesn’t wipe your Master Boot Record (MBR). What you probably have, if you formatted your partition during the XP Pro installation, is a single XP Pro installation with an inaccurate boot menu. If they have both Windows installations, I would strongly recommend backing up your data and starting from scratch, deleting all your partitions, creating a new one, and installing XP Pro. Windows installations on one partition, or somehow ended up with two partitions each with a Windows installation. If you select the XP Home option and you can boot into your old XP Home installation, then you either have two If you select the XP Home boot menu option, and it either boots into XP Pro, or doesn’t boot at all, you’re correct in that you only have one Windows installation. Microsoft writes about this situation in Knowledge Bulletin #Q289022, but hopefully my answer will get you going faster anyway. Reboot the computer to see the changed effect.There are two possibilities here – one, you actually have two Windows installations, or two, your boot menu just thinks there are. Now type the command with some adjustments.īcdedit /set description “Windows 10 Pro”Ĥ.

The Identifier denotes the mode of Operating system and Description denotes the name.ģ.

A long description about OS will appear.Ĭheck every Windows Boot Loader description. Right click on the Start Menu, go to Command Prompt (Admin) and hit Enter to open the Elevated Command Prompt.Ģ. Steps to Change Operating System Name at Startup in Windows 10ġ. The following tutorial will help you to change operating system name at startup. If you have many PCs running different versions of Windows 10, you can change the name at Startup from Windows 10 to Windows 10 Pro or Windows 10 Home or to anything you desire. Windows 10 comes in different versions, like Home, Pro etc. Windows 10 OS has a definite name that can be found with a help of a small Command prompt Command.