How to remove 2nd copy of Windows XP

[Elvis]

After loading a new purchased copy of Windows XP
professional on my laptop, I thought I was using the
Service Pack 1 utility from the purchased copy of Windows
XP on my desktop. I accidently installed the software
twice and it now shows a "USERS" and "USERS.WINDOWS". How
do I uninstall the 2nd copy?

 

[S.Sengupta]

-----Original Message-----
After loading a new purchased copy of Windows XP
professional on my laptop, I thought I was using the
Service Pack 1 utility from the purchased copy of Windows
XP on my desktop. I accidently installed the software
twice and it now shows a "USERS" and "USERS.WINDOWS". How
do I uninstall the 2nd copy?
.

Hello!
You have a different folder name for the second install.
Are you getting dual boot option?
If then it could be a boot.ini setting. you can change
that in order to edit it. If you open it (double-clicking
will do) you can read the entries. Leave the top entries
alone and look at the entries under [Operating Systems].
There are probably two exact entries, one above the other.
If this is so, you can delete one of them (the one that
shows a different name than the original folder for the OS
in the "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT" line
where the second OS will be different than WINNT) and
should be in good shape.
with regards/
ssg/pronetworks.org