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re: 'How do I uninstall a 2nd Windows XP?'
Thursday, September 5, 2002 at 8:32 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by michele
(2 messages posted)
You can "accidentally" install the os a second time. I did an upograde of xp home
to xp professional. At startup, I opted for upgrade. Several times during the installation,
windows will reboot and ask if you want to boot from cd; unfortunately, I hit the
key, which now forces a new installation. I did not realize that I had just started
a new installation and did not cancel setup when asked because I thought I was still
installing the upgrade. So now I have an upgrade of win xp pro and a clean install
of win xp pro on the same partition. The question is how do you remove the clean
install and leave the upgrade w/o reformatting the 'c' drive ?
On Wednesday, August 14, 2002 at 9:55 am, Bobby B wrote:
>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.
>
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