Two XPs

[Sherry Crawley]

After a system crash, I have finally finished re-installing Windows XP
MCE 2005. I had problems with that install (certain .NET fixes would
not apply). So, I chose to re-install yet again.
I chose the option to create a new installation, thinking it would
overwrite my existing one. I don't know how I did it, but now I have an
installation on my D: drive, as well as my C: drive. When I boot, I get
the OS choices.
Is there anyway to get rid of the C: installation and move the one from
D: over to C:?

I really want to keep my D: drive just for data, photos, videos etc.

Thanks for any ideas.

[peter]

Its easier to remove the one on D and do a "repair" installation to fix the
one on C
A repair installation starts out as a New Installation but there will come a
screen which will ask you if you wish to do a repair to push
R............just be sure you pick the right XP.
After the repair you can then format the D drive to remove XP....I assume
there is nothing else on it??
peter
"Sherry Crawley" > wrote in message
...
> After a system crash, I have finally finished re-installing Windows XP MCE
> 2005. I had problems with that install (certain .NET fixes would not
> apply). So, I chose to re-install yet again.
> I chose the option to create a new installation, thinking it would
> overwrite my existing one. I don't know how I did it, but now I have an
> installation on my D: drive, as well as my C: drive. When I boot, I get
> the OS choices.
> Is there anyway to get rid of the C: installation and move the one from D:
> over to C:?
>
> I really want to keep my D: drive just for data, photos, videos etc.
>
> Thanks for any ideas.

[Sherry Crawley]

Thanks for that.
However, my problem started out when after doing a repair on the C: one,
I could just not get some .NET fixes to apply.
So, I thought by re-installing with a 'fresh' installation, it would
over-write the existing C: one. I don't recall doing it, but I must have
missed some option that said to create the 'fresh' one on the D: drive.

The fresh install on the D: drive went fine and I could put all the
fixes on it. It wasn't until later on when I was installing Thunderbird
that it assumed the default directory of D:\Program Files.. that I knew
I had a problem.

I presume simply copying the Windows files (Documents..) etc. over the
ones on C: will not do the trick?

If not, is there a way to get a fresh copy onto C: without formatting
the partition? It has a bunch of other files that I could archived to
CD if I had to.

Thanks.

peter wrote:
> Its easier to remove the one on D and do a "repair" installation to fix the
> one on C
> A repair installation starts out as a New Installation but there will come a
> screen which will ask you if you wish to do a repair to push
> R............just be sure you pick the right XP.
> After the repair you can then format the D drive to remove XP....I assume
> there is nothing else on it??
> peter
> "Sherry Crawley" > wrote in message
> ...
>> After a system crash, I have finally finished re-installing Windows XP MCE
>> 2005. I had problems with that install (certain .NET fixes would not
>> apply). So, I chose to re-install yet again.
>> I chose the option to create a new installation, thinking it would
>> overwrite my existing one. I don't know how I did it, but now I have an
>> installation on my D: drive, as well as my C: drive. When I boot, I get
>> the OS choices.
>> Is there anyway to get rid of the C: installation and move the one from D:
>> over to C:?
>>
>> I really want to keep my D: drive just for data, photos, videos etc.
>>
>> Thanks for any ideas.
>
>

[peter]

A "repair" installation of XP onto the C drive does not format that drive
nor will you lose any of your settings of that C xp installation.
You could after that do a manual delete of all XP files on the D drive and
then edit the Boot.ini file to reflect that you now have only one copy of
XP.
If you open start/run and type in "msconfig" under the boot.ini tab you can
click the "check all boot paths" it will verify that you only have one XP
installation.
The problem is that when you installed XP onto that D drive it changed the
master boot record to reflect that change.The boot files are in the root of
the C drive thats why the repair installation to correct that.
peter
"Sherry Crawley" > wrote in message
...
> Thanks for that.
> However, my problem started out when after doing a repair on the C: one, I
> could just not get some .NET fixes to apply.
> So, I thought by re-installing with a 'fresh' installation, it would
> over-write the existing C: one. I don't recall doing it, but I must have
> missed some option that said to create the 'fresh' one on the D: drive.
>
> The fresh install on the D: drive went fine and I could put all the fixes
> on it. It wasn't until later on when I was installing Thunderbird that it
> assumed the default directory of D:\Program Files.. that I knew I had a
> problem.
>
> I presume simply copying the Windows files (Documents..) etc. over the
> ones on C: will not do the trick?
>
> If not, is there a way to get a fresh copy onto C: without formatting the
> partition? It has a bunch of other files that I could archived to CD if I
> had to.
>
> Thanks.
>
> peter wrote:
>> Its easier to remove the one on D and do a "repair" installation to fix
>> the one on C
>> A repair installation starts out as a New Installation but there will
>> come a screen which will ask you if you wish to do a repair to push
>> R............just be sure you pick the right XP.
>> After the repair you can then format the D drive to remove XP....I assume
>> there is nothing else on it??
>> peter
>> "Sherry Crawley" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> After a system crash, I have finally finished re-installing Windows XP
>>> MCE 2005. I had problems with that install (certain .NET fixes would
>>> not apply). So, I chose to re-install yet again.
>>> I chose the option to create a new installation, thinking it would
>>> overwrite my existing one. I don't know how I did it, but now I have an
>>> installation on my D: drive, as well as my C: drive. When I boot, I get
>>> the OS choices.
>>> Is there anyway to get rid of the C: installation and move the one from
>>> D: over to C:?
>>>
>>> I really want to keep my D: drive just for data, photos, videos etc.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any ideas.
>>