Installed XP twice.. and now trying to get rid of one installation..... how?

[FindSP.com]

Hello all

I'm in a bit of a Jam..

Let me explain my problem to you and hopefully someone of you will be able to help me out.

First I formatted my PC... that was ok - then I tried to install for the first time - Windows XP - the first installation was unsucesfull and I had to reset in the middle without being able to remove the remains of this installation of my PC - I just didn't format the pc again..

Now, in the second installation it succeeded and I thought it would overwrite the first installation and everything will be ok... but WRONG!!!!!!!! what I have now is the following:

whenever I turn on the computer I get the option to chose between 2 OS - one which is functional and one which doesn't work - the remains of the first installation as you may guess..
It also makes the computer very slow...

So My question is how do I get rid of the remains of the first OS without formatting the computer again?

Hopefully one of your smart fellows will be able to help me..

Please try - it would be really great to see this old machine working as fast as it can... I'm sick of waiting for 2 minutes opening outlook on this PC
Thank you very much

Looking forward hearing from you.

[richjonse]

**restart the computer and find out which os is the one that works make a note of the one that doesn't work, top or bottom - easy

when it has booted and is logged on, right click my computer on the desktop, go to properties, click on the advanced tab, then settings in the startup and recovery box.
click edit in the system startup box.

copy all text to a new file and save in the c: root as boot.bak
(just in case)

change the timeout=xx value to something low. then remove one of the lines like the one below [operating systems], you must delete the upper or lower line you made a note of before.

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

it is only a boot record that is stored not the old os, you now wont get the prompt for the corrupt installation

hope it works

[FindSP.com]

Problem solved thanks