How Do I Uninstall First Installation of XP?

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Kevin Walker

Because of some bum advice I got from a tech support person at Iomega, my
first installation of Windows XP crashed, and I had to reinstall.

When I reinstalled, I chose the option of installing to a different folder
'C:\Windows1' instead of the default 'C:\Windows' so I could save some
subfolders from being deleted or overwritten.

Now I have recovered everything, and want to delete the original 'C:
\Windows' install and recover the disk space.

How do I do it?

Note that when Windows boots up it currently recognizes both installs of
the operating system and prompts me as to which one to continue the boot
with.

Thanks in advance for any and all help!
 
Whew...there are two ways one the easy way the other the hard way.
The problem is that you have 2 copies of XP on the same partition so where
exactly did the registration entries go for each XP??How many
"settings&documents" folders do you have?? Are all of the users the same??
The easy way
Just delete the folder you do not want ...just be sure your not in that XP
Then use Notepad to edit that version out of the Boot.Ini file
The Hard way
Back up everything that you want to save
Reinstall XP as a new Install formatting your HD in the process
This way all of the reg entries will be where they should be
good luck
peter
 
Kevin,

On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 14:01:29 -0600, Kevin Walker

[...]
When I reinstalled, I chose the option of installing to a different folder
'C:\Windows1' instead of the default 'C:\Windows' so I could save some
subfolders from being deleted or overwritten.

Now I have recovered everything, and want to delete the original 'C:
\Windows' install and recover the disk space.

How do I do it?
Click to expand...

[...]

Logged on with the installation of windows you want to keep, delete
the C:\Windows folder.
Then go to Start > Run > msconfig
go to the boot.ini tab and click on
'Check all paths'

Good luck
 
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