2 XPs installed on computer

[Chris M]

Being the novice that I am, I have installed Windows XP
twice, and created a 'partition?'. How do I uninstall the
latter version I installed?

 

[peter]

DUAL BOOT REMOVAL ==========================2 instances of
XP==========================
Control Panel > System > Advanced > Start-up and Recovery Settings > Edit.
Carefully remove the
2nd reference to your non-existent installation.

Assuming you are running XP on C: and do not have a second O/S installed,
you
should carefully edit your "boot.ini file". It should look similar to this:

[boot loader]
timeout=0
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home"
/fastdetect

P.S. DO NOT EDIT-OUT OR REMOVE THE FIRST REFERENCE TO WINDOWS XP OR YOUR
COMPUTER WILL FAIL TO BOOT!
After you have done this and restart from within XP/control panel/admin
tools/computer management
format that 2nd copy of XP out of existence
peter

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Chris,

Boot the one you do want., open Windows Explorer and delete the system
folders for the one that you do not want.

Then, start/run C:\boot.ini

Remove the line referencing the unwanted system from the [operating systems]
section.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone