delete dual boot

[asia]

I upgraded win98 to xp onto fat32. Right after that
install I realized I wanted to format the drive and do a
clean install so I ran the installation cd again and
chose the second option. I now have two copies of xp on
my drive, one on fat32 and one on NFTS. My machine
recognizes this as a dual boot.

Could someone tell me how to remove xp on fat32?

It doesn't show up in the add/remove programs screen. I
tried running osuninst.exe from safemode w/command
prompts but that wouldn't work either.

Please help.

 

[Michael Stevens]

I upgraded win98 to xp onto fat32. Right after that
install I realized I wanted to format the drive and do a
clean install so I ran the installation cd again and
chose the second option. I now have two copies of xp on
my drive, one on fat32 and one on NFTS. My machine
recognizes this as a dual boot.

Could someone tell me how to remove xp on fat32?

It doesn't show up in the add/remove programs screen. I
tried running osuninst.exe from safemode w/command
prompts but that wouldn't work either.

Please help.

See if one of the option in the links below work for you.
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Remove a dual boot.
http://michaelstevenstech.com/xpfaq.html#Remove
http://michaelstevenstech.com/xpfaq.html#two
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[Asia]

Thanks for the info Michael.

I went to the startup and recovery menu. Only one
verison of xp is listed in the boot.ini.

[boot loader]
timeout=30
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

I think this is because the xp verison on fat32 was not
activated, only the one on NFTS was. I guess I could
activate the one on fat32 but I was hoping it would just
erase itself after 30 days and I wouldn't have to worry
about it.

I would like to format fat32 and convert it to NFTS.
Fat32 shows up in the format window along with NFTS but
windows will not let me format fat32. Do you know how I
could do this?


Thanks for your help.