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re: 'How do I uninstall a 2nd Windows XP?'
Wednesday, August 14, 2002 at 9:55 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Bob B
(2307 messages posted)
I give up - how does one "accidently" install XP?
At any rate, are you sure it is actually on there twice? You would have had a different
folder name for the second install. Otherwise, it could be a boot.ini setting.
The boot.ini is a file under C: that has boot info and menus. It is read-only, but
you can change that in order to edit it. If you open it (double-clicking will do)
you can read the entries. Leave the top entries alone and look at the entries under
[Operating Systems].
There are probably two exact entries, one above the other. If this is so, you can
delete one of them (the one that shows a different name than the original folder
for the OS in the "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT" line where the second
OS will be different than WINNT) and should be in good shape. But BEFORE you edit
the file, make a boot disk. Format a floppy on your system and copy the following
files from C: boot.ini, ntldr and ntdetect.com onto the floppy. Then, CHECK the
floppy by leaving it in and rebooting. If it gets accessed during the early stages,
then the machine boots normally, you have a good boot disk. Now you can edit the
boot.ini file and check it out. If the machine doesn't boot, you can use the boot
disk to get it booted, then copy the boot.ini from the disk onto the drive again
and try editing again.
If this works, you should be able to delete the folder structure for the extra OS
(the non-WINNT directory line).
If this all sounds confusing, find a friend who is more familiar to help.
On Wednesday, August 14, 2002 at 9:05 am, Baze wrote:
>I have a question about How
>do I uninstall Windows?:
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>Accidently installed a 2nd XP.
>
>At start up I have to choose between 2 os:
>"win XP home edition" or "Win XP home edition"
>
>Yes, 2 exactly the same Os' but the top one(at startup) is the one I accidently
double
>installed and need to get rid off again...
>They're both on the same Partition since I only have one partition. How do I uninstall
>that one??
>
>
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