More than one XP install?

[John Barnett [mvp]]

It looks like there was already two copiews on the
machine in the first place and you adding one has made
three. The salesman really should have advised you to
reformat the drive. This is the only way you are going to
get rid of all the rubbish.
What i suggest you do is reinstall xp again. Only this
time when you get to the part in Windows Setup were you
are asked which partition you want to install xp on, i
suggest you read the screens carefully and then start
deleting all of the partitions that xp is on. After they
have all been deleted simply create One new one, format
it and then allow xp to install itself.

Hope this helps

John Barnett - [mvp]
Associate Expert
>-----Original Message-----
>I've just bought a new pc which I got at a discount as
it
>was the display model. Because of this I was advised by
>the shop assistant to reinstall windows to get rid of
any
>settings already put into the computer by the staff or
>customers meddling with it in the shop.
>He didn't say that I needed to reformat it first so I
>simply reinstalled XP with the disks provided. I've now
>noticed that when I start the computer up it asks me
>which version of XP I would like to start, and lists it
>three times. (before I reinstalled XP it was listed
twice)
>But when I look inside the My computer>Windows folders I
>can still see listings and data for the other accounts
on
>the other installation, although I only have one user.
>How can I remove this data and the other XP
>installations?
>.
>