At this point the best thing to do would be to back up your data and do a clean install, 
that would format your  C:\ drive and get rid of all traces of the old install.







On Sunday, April 8, 2007 at 5:20 am, andy wrote:

>Hi all new to this site can anyone help me??

>i have windows xp pro for which i have no key, so i have bought a copy of xp home 

>and installed it onto my hard drive in a different partition so when i switch my 

>machine on it now gives me the choice to load the new home edition or the old xp 

>pro edition, so now i would like to remove the xp pro system from my hard drive 
i 

>thought if i went into my computer selected the partition with xp pro on i would 

>be able to delete the file called windows and that would be that, but it want allow 

>it also there is a folder with all my old programs in called programs if i select 

>a programe from this folder it will run fine on xp home, but if i try to move it 

>from my "c" drive which is the partition with xp pro which i want to get rid of, 

>onto my "d" drive which has the new xp home addition on they wont run??. sorry its 

>so longwinded not the most tech person in the world, in short i have pro on a partition 

>and i would like to erase it??

>any help would be great

>have a good easter

>andy 

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