How to remove an installation of WIndows XP on my D: drive

[Paige Miller]

I'm not quite sure how this happened, I was trying to do an upgrade of
Windows XP on my C: drive using the Recovery CD-ROM that came with my
computer. The problem was that Windows XP had become unstable and I
wanted to upgrade (re-install) Windows XP on my C: drive.

Anyway, I seem to have succeeded in writing a copy of Windows onto my
D: drive (as well as updating/upgrading my WIndows installation on my
C: drive). So now there's a copy of Windows on my D: drive that I
don't want (and when I reboot the computer, the installation on the C:
drive appears to fire up automatically).

How do I remove the Windows installation on my D: drive?

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Paige Miller
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It's nothing until I call it -- Bill Klem, NL Umpire
If you get the choice to sit it out or dance,
I hope you dance -- Lee Ann Womack

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Open Windows Explorer to D: and delete the system files. Then run msconfig
and on the boot.ini tab click the button to 'check all boot paths', it
should offer to remove the now-invalid path to D:.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Paige Miller]

Hi,

Open Windows Explorer to D: and delete the system files. Then run
msconfig and on the boot.ini tab click the button to 'check all boot
paths', it should offer to remove the now-invalid path to D:.

That simple? Nice! Thank you for the quick response!

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Paige Miller
(e-mail address removed)

It's nothing until I call it -- Bill Klem, NL Umpire
If you get the choice to sit it out or dance,
I hope you dance -- Lee Ann Womack