2 XP os's installed........need to delete one.....how???

[Jeremy Fawcett]

(any assistance will be appreciated)



Recently upraded from Win98SE to XP...at boot up a black
screen appears & prompts to select between 2 separate XP
operating systems. Obviously I only need one. Any clues
as to how I can get rid of the other one without re-
formatting again?

Thanks :-)

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Jeremy,

If it is truely only installed once, then start/run msconfig and go to the
boot.ini tab. Click on the box to check all boot paths. It should prompt for
removal of invalid entries.

If it is installed in more than one location (meaning the system will load
regardless of which entry is chosen), then boot the one you want to keep.
Delete the system folders for the one you wish to remove using Windows
Explorer. Then open boot.ini ( a hidden system folder on the root of the
boot partition) and remove the reference to the system you just deleted.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

"Jeremy Fawcett" > wrote in message
...
> (any assistance will be appreciated)
>
>
>
> Recently upraded from Win98SE to XP...at boot up a black
> screen appears & prompts to select between 2 separate XP
> operating systems. Obviously I only need one. Any clues
> as to how I can get rid of the other one without re-
> formatting again?
>
> Thanks :-)

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

To determine which Windows folder your OS instance is using, enter
%windir% in the address bar. Then you can safely delete the other
folder. A clean install and an OEM install of XP usually uses
C:\Windows. Upgrades sometimes use C:\WINNT.

--
Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows



"Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" > wrote in
message ...
>
> If it is truely only installed once, then start/run msconfig and go to
the
> boot.ini tab. Click on the box to check all boot paths. It should
prompt for
> removal of invalid entries.
>
> If it is installed in more than one location (meaning the system will
load
> regardless of which entry is chosen), then boot the one you want to
keep.
> Delete the system folders for the one you wish to remove using Windows
> Explorer. Then open boot.ini ( a hidden system folder on the root of
the
> boot partition) and remove the reference to the system you just
deleted.
>
> "Jeremy Fawcett" > wrote in message
> ...
> >
> > Recently upraded from Win98SE to XP...at boot up a black
> > screen appears & prompts to select between 2 separate XP
> > operating systems. Obviously I only need one. Any clues
> > as to how I can get rid of the other one without re-
> > formatting again?