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re: How do I uninstall Windows XP, when it is installed twice
Wednesday, January 5, 2005 at 5:17 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Steve
(1 messages posted)
One of these instances of XP can be removed by editing the boot.ini file. The easiest
way it to go to Control Panel>Advanced>Start Up and Recovery>Settings>System Startup>Edit.
This will open the file in notepad and you will notice under Operating Systems there
are 2 partitions showing. The first installation should be partition 1 so simply
take out the line for partition 2 and save. run msconfig to check this has amemnded
the boot file and make sure that the default is set as partition 1. hope this helps.
ps. it is a good idea to backup the boot.ini file before editing, just simply save
a copy on the desktop just incase.
On Wednesday, May 5, 2004 at 4:29 pm, Corby Johanneson wrote:
>I'm writing to you regarding a post you made on Annoyances.org having to do with
>two installations of Windows XP.
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>I'm having the same problem which you described (XP seems to be installed twice
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>when booting, the system asks me which Windows I want to start).
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>Were you able to uninstall one of the copies? Formatting the drive is not an option
>in my case. Additionally, I'm unable to use the second instance of XP on the machine,
>as it's unregistered and has accounts to which I don't have the passwords (which
>is the copy I want to remove from the system).
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>As a criticism of the other people who've posted in this thread, there were no responses
>that were actually helpful in resolving the problem!! The *question* was how
do
>I uninstall one of the copies of XP on my system - which went totally unanswered.
>
>Any suggestions?
> -Corby Johanneson
>
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