Removing a second copy of XP (on the same partition)

[Jon Stovell]

Basic story is as follows:

I had an annoying error with XP (display control panel
kept crashing), and nothing I tried seemed to fix it, so
I tried to reinstall the OS into the original directory
(C:\Windows). Something went wrong with the reinstall,
such that on every attempt to reboot, it bluescreens and
reboots again, ad infinitum. So I reinstalled a second
time, to a new directory (C:\WinXP), which worked
perfectly. But now I have two copies of XP on my
machine. How do I remove the unnecessary copy?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

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

[Courtesy of MS-MVP Michael Stevens]

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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| Basic story is as follows:
|
| I had an annoying error with XP (display control panel
| kept crashing), and nothing I tried seemed to fix it, so
| I tried to reinstall the OS into the original directory
| (C:\Windows). Something went wrong with the reinstall,
| such that on every attempt to reboot, it bluescreens and
| reboots again, ad infinitum. So I reinstalled a second
| time, to a new directory (C:\WinXP), which worked
| perfectly. But now I have two copies of XP on my
| machine. How do I remove the unnecessary copy?