2 windows XP OS's

[kaybee328]

A few years ago a tech from Best Buy installed a copy of Windows XP
home on my computer. The CPU came with Windows XP Pro. installed on it
(back in '01 or '02). It was a bootleg copy of Windows XP home and now
it doesn't even work. Would a dual OS take up a bunch of room on my
hard drive? I am getting it taken off soon (by the Geek Squad, LOL,
plus they are doing some more work) but I am wondering if that could be
one of the causes of me having only like 14% left on my hard drive. Any
help you can give would be great...thanx

 

[peter]

Lets see my XP home installation takes up about 3.2 gb of HD
space...........plus all of the files under Documents&Settings.
So with 2 OS on the same HD Partition that would
double.............................plus some since you've Pro.
I find it incredulous that a tech from a major retailer would install a non
legal copy of XP into the same partition that already holds a legal copy of
XP Pro!!!!!!!!!!
Personally if it was my system I would save all of my work to a DVD and
reinstall XP pro from scratch formatting the HD in the process and then
reinstall all of my programs.This way I would know what the hell I have and
be starting from a clean slate that only I can f--- up
peter