Reversing a parallel installation

[Barney Katz]

About a year ago I performed a "parallel installation" of XP on my computer.
The parallel installation was placed into the WINXP folder. Each time I boot
I'm given a choice of which installation to use. I now want to eliminate one
of the installations, the original one, and keep the one in the WINXP
folder. How do I do this?

I vaguely remember editing my boot.ini file when setting up the parallel
installation. How do I edit this file again to reflect the fact that there
will be only 1 installation?

Thank you.

Barney

 

[Mikhail Zhilin]

Barney,

To get the correct answer, paste the content of Boot.ini in your reply
here.

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[Wesley Vogel]

I have two installations of XP on the same partition
http://michaelstevenstech.com/xpfaq.html

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20. I have two installations of XP on the same partition.......

How to remove a second installation of a Windows operating system from a
partition
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888023

[[You reinstalled Windows XP on your computer thinking it would overwrite
the existing version of Windows XP and now there are two copies when you
boot up. Crap! What to do now? Not to worry, here's the solution.]]
http://www.cyberwalker.net/faqs/reinstall-reformat-winxp/two-copies-xp.html

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[Barney Katz]

I followed the advice from the page you provided:
How to remove a second installation of a Windows operating system from a
partition
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888023

It worked perfectly. I'm glad I followed the advice to RUN %windir% first to
determine the working Windows folder that I want to keep. It turned out to
be Windows and not WINXP as I had originally thought. Without this
preliminary step I might have deleted the wrong folder.

I had no trouble editing boot.ini afterwards so I won't print it out here.

My thanks to Mikhail and Wesley for their input.

Barney

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Never heard of Windows being in WINXP. %windir% is usually WINDOWS or WINNT
although when you install you could name it FRED if you wanted.

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[Barney Katz]

WINXP was the name suggested in the article which described the procedure
for setting up a parallel installation but, as you stated, FRED would have
worked just as well. If I had booted to WINXP, then that folder would have
opened when Running %windir%.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Gives new meaning to the path C:\FRED\system32\drivers\etc ;-)

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