pbicp Posted December 5, 2006 CID Share Posted December 5, 2006 Hey...my friend has two windows xp operating systems on his computer...how would he get rid of one of them...thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted December 6, 2006 CID Share Posted December 6, 2006 if one is "dead" then you can edit boot.ini and remove it from the boot manager.. however if they both are alive and usable then I would reformat to remove one of them. trying to remove one is going to be quite difficult.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junkieXL Posted December 27, 2006 CID Share Posted December 27, 2006 assuming they are on the same partition: 1. Boot to the desired version of Windows XP you want to keep-making note of the position in the boot menu. This will be important when you edit boot.ini. 2. Open a command prompt * and type "echo %windir%" without the quotes but with the %. This will give you the current Windows folder you are using. 3. From Explorer, delete the folder containing the installation you want to remove. The original install folder is usually called Windows and subsequent folders will be derivatives of Windows or Winnt. 4. Open System Properties > Advanced Tab > Startup and Recovery > Settings > Edit 5. Select the Edit button and from notepad, first backup boot.ini, by going to File; Save As and rename boot.ini. to something like boot.inibak. 6. Remove the line referencing the installation not chosen to keep. 7. Set timeout=0 so the system boots directly into Win XP (you will not get the boot menu). 8. Save As boot.ini & Exit. 9. Reboot. Let me know the outcome, ok -JxL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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