How to delete OS from dual boot

[Guest]

To cut the story short, I now have a dual boot (identical OS in 1 partition)
in my Compaq labtop (xp home). Rather then to do a clean installation of
system recovery, now, how can I delete the 'accidental' OS and only have the
original installation in it. Thanks for your time

 

[Shenan Stanley]

To cut the story short, I now have a dual boot (identical OS in 1
partition) in my Compaq labtop (xp home). Rather then to do a clean
installation of system recovery, now, how can I delete the
'accidental' OS and only have the original installation in it.
Thanks for your time

Edit the BOOT.INI.

 

[Malke]

To cut the story short, I now have a dual boot (identical OS in 1
partition) in my Compaq labtop (xp home). Rather then to do a clean
installation of system recovery, now, how can I delete the
'accidental' OS and only have the original installation in it. Thanks
for your time

"I have two installations of XP on the same partition" -
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/xpfaq.html#20

Malke

 

[Ayush]

Start > Run > msconfig > Boot.ini tab > Check all boot paths

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: To cut the story short, I now have a dual boot (identical OS in 1
partition)
: in my Compaq labtop (xp home). Rather then to do a clean installation of
: system recovery, now, how can I delete the 'accidental' OS and only have
the
: original installation in it. Thanks for your time

 

[Guest]

At the moment the boot.ini is as follows:-
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS.0
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS.0="Microsoft Windows XP
Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

so just to counter check, I should have this as the new boot.ini . That is
to say I want to boot up as when I first got the labtop

[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 Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

....... please confirm the above is correct, thanks

 

[Guest]

Fyi, I got it working now. Thanks for all your help.

Start > Run > msconfig > Boot.ini tab > Check all boot paths

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Ayush [ Be ''?'' Happy ]

For any query, search > www.Google.com
Want to know about a term > http://en.wikipedia.org

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: To cut the story short, I now have a dual boot (identical OS in 1
partition)
: in my Compaq labtop (xp home). Rather then to do a clean installation of
: system recovery, now, how can I delete the 'accidental' OS and only have
the
: original installation in it. Thanks for your time