Uninstall dual boot

[Hankie Irwan]

Hi,

Can anyone help me? I accidentally install another XP
home OS in my system, so therefore I have two XP home OS
now. How can I uninstall the latest OS while retaining
the old OS? Thanks.

Hankie

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Start/run msconfig, go to the boot.ini. Select the line referencing the
system you want to keep, click "set as default". Click apply/ok and reboot -
make sure it works as you expect it to.

Then open Windows Explorer and delete the system folders from the unwanted
installation.

Start/run C:\boot.ini

Remove the line referencing the unwanted system from the [operating systems]
section and set the timeout= line to 3 (the system default). Click file/save
and close.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[Alex Nichol]

Can anyone help me? I accidentally install another XP
home OS in my system, so therefore I have two XP home OS
now. How can I uninstall the latest OS while retaining
the old OS? Thanks.

It is important to find whether you installed into the same folder, or
two different ones. So first thing is to go to
Control Panel - System - Advanced - In Startup and Error recovery click
Settings, then in that Edit to edit the boot.ini file.

Under [Operating systems] there will be a line like

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP" /fastdetect

for each instance - if these are identical before the = (especially the
number in partition(n) and the folder indicated by \Windows) then you
have two entries for the same system (the new overwrote the old). All
you have to do then is delete one of these and one of the lines, the one
not marked as default, in the [BootLoader] section.

If they are not the same, you need to delete the unwanted pair, noting
the folder, and then delete that folder after rebooting. If the
partition is different so you see a second drive in My Computer with a
windows folder in it, delete that one