please help uninstall xp

[Guest]

I recently built my first computer and installed XP Pro onto my primary hard
drive. When everything was all well and good, I found I could not see my 2nd
hard drive, though the computer knew it was there. After many foolish
attempts to rectify the situation, I realized the hard drive needed to be
formatted (obviously). My next problem was I did not know how to format the
hard drive, so I decided to install XP onto the new hard drive because that
will certainly format the hard drive for me. I figured after the XP setup
formatted and installed XP onto the hard drive, I could simply remove XP and
the hard drive would be formatted. After XP was installed on the 2nd hard
drive, I ran the setup up and deleted the partition that XP was on, hoping
that this would remove XP. How wrong I was though. Now when I boot my
computer, it asks me which hard drive I would like to boot XP from, but the
2nd hard drive won't load XP because of a corrupt file (no doubt from me
deleting the partition). Since all this has occurred, I have formatted the
2nd hard drive and it works perfectly. My question (finally) is, how do I
remove XP from my 2nd hard drive so that when my computer boots up, it does
not ask me which hard drive to boot from? Thanks for reading all the way
down to this point.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I recently built my first computer and installed XP Pro onto my
primary hard drive. When everything was all well and good, I found I
could not see my 2nd hard drive, though the computer knew it was
there. After many foolish attempts to rectify the situation, I
realized the hard drive needed to be formatted (obviously). My next
problem was I did not know how to format the hard drive, so I decided
to install XP onto the new hard drive because that will certainly
format the hard drive for me. I figured after the XP setup formatted
and installed XP onto the hard drive, I could simply remove XP and
the hard drive would be formatted. After XP was installed on the 2nd
hard drive, I ran the setup up and deleted the partition that XP was
on, hoping that this would remove XP. How wrong I was though. Now
when I boot my computer, it asks me which hard drive I would like to
boot XP from, but the 2nd hard drive won't load XP because of a
corrupt file (no doubt from me deleting the partition). Since all
this has occurred, I have formatted the 2nd hard drive and it works
perfectly. My question (finally) is, how do I remove XP from my 2nd
hard drive so that when my computer boots up, it does not ask me
which hard drive to boot from? Thanks for reading all the way down
to this point.

Hmmm.. Next time use the built in "Help and Support" link so prevalent in
your start menu and search for help or even use Google..

A search for "How do I Format a hard drive in Windows XP" would have
resulted in many useful responses..
Such as:
How to use Disk Management to configure basic disks in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000

As for your current dellima - edit your BOOT.INI and leabve only the working
selection - deleting the non-working one..
How to edit the Boot.ini file in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289022