Two (2) WindowsXP systems on same drive.

neil2 · #1 03-06-2004, 08:05 AM

My ex wife (friendly) had so many virus bugs in her system I installed a new os on her machine from the Dell disk that came with her computer. Now when I boot up I have a choice of either the new or the old XP os.
Question is how do I go about removing the old corrupted one? I have installed a virus checker in the new one as well...

Azn_tweaker · #2 03-06-2004, 08:53 AM

you reformat the messed drive.

costa9407 · #3 03-06-2004, 08:56 AM

are you just looking to remove one of the choices or is the whole old opperating system intact? If it is just one of the choices you want to remove. then click start then right click on my computer, then clcik properties, then click on the advanced tab at the top. Then in startup and recovery clcik settings. then in system startup click edit. boot notepad will open up. Delete the opperating system that you no longer wish to see. then click file save. close it click ok, then ok again. Now reboot and you should not have two choices anymore.......................

neil2 · #4 03-08-2004, 05:22 PM

Thanks for the info guys....However I don't see how I can reformat the C drive without loosing the new version. I have an E partition that I moved all my pertenant data to and thats all there is on that. The new Win XP installed on the C drive and is there along with the Old one. It is virus free but full of holes (the old one). I would just like to be rid of the ugly thing! Any more Ideas?
I suppose I could remove it with DOS commands but it seems like there should be a neater way.....

Azn_tweaker · #5 03-08-2004, 05:30 PM

when u put in the XP CD and boot from the CD it will ask which paritation u would like to format.. so u choose which drive is messed or u can reformat all the drives and start a fresh HD.

Play_The_0dds · #6 03-08-2004, 05:30 PM

easy fix, locate the folder for the first installation in the C drive, while booted into the new one. delete the folder. now reboot, go to start, run type
msconfig
go to the boot.ini tab and click check all boot paths. it will remove the boot loader for the deleted version. you should be good to go then.

Azn_tweaker · #7 03-08-2004, 05:32 PM

yeah u could do it that way or just reformat all ur drives.

njovin · #8 03-09-2004, 11:26 AM

AZN - Once again, I must insist that you quit giving bad advice. The gentlemen was simply asking how to get rid of the boot option and you want him to reformat his entire system. If you had read the question, you would have seen that he is using a Dell list, which may be a recovery disc, not a full Win XP install. The easy (and correct) solution is the one known_criminal posted, to edit the boot.ini file and remove the boot choice.

snowmonkey · #9 03-09-2004, 11:40 AM

neil2, there is another way to do that too, if you don't feel comfortable editing INI file,, right click on My Computer / go to Property / Advance TAB / then click on "Startup and Recovery button / there is a little box with a check mark which says,, Display list of Operating system for X seconds ,, remove the check mark and on the reboot you will not be prompted to OS selection.

cheers

p.s ; Azn_tweakers, you are giving us (Canadian) a bad rep with you bad advice

neil2 · #10 03-10-2004, 07:06 AM

Many thanks everyone! When I get the computer back this weekend I will check all this out. thanks again Neil

Exodus 88 · #11 03-14-2004, 11:11 PM

just run msconfig, go to boot.ini and delete the old one

gizmo-36 · #12 03-15-2004, 10:54 AM

I had Two on my computer too.I did all that you all said now i only see one .But i did not get any HD back.If you have a 40HD and all you have on it Windows XP PRO.how much HD should you have left.

Azn_tweaker · #13 03-15-2004, 11:01 AM

around 37, 38 gig's left

gizmo-36 · #14 03-15-2004, 11:16 AM

I can not get one of them off . and i don't know much about computers.

gizmo-36 · #15 03-15-2004, 06:01 PM

I down load dban 1.0.1 HD tools and formated the HD and that work..