My brother, started installing a second partition of windows in the storage hard disk to skip the password check of the first windows and he left the installation halfcomplete. How can i get rid of the second windows?? Thank you

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Start up in the 1st Windows installation, and format the drive of where the half 
installed windows is...?



 




On Wednesday, May 7, 2008 at 1:02 am, odysseas0 wrote:

>My brother, started installing a second partition of windows in the storage hard 

>disk to skip the password check of the first windows and he left the installation 

>halfcomplete. How can i get rid of the second windows?? Thank you 

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If I understand you right, he started installing windows on your second hard drive? 
 Like D:?

YOu have to edit the boot.ini file on the C: drive in order to remove the second 
entry that pertains to this installation.  This will remove it from your boot sequence. 
 You can identify the proper partition because the entries will tell you what drive() 
and partition() the installation is on.. The correct entry will be something like 
drive(0), and the bad one will be drive(1)...

I don't know if it is actually called drive, but take a look, you'll see.

Then just go delete the files off the D: drive like the WINDOWS folder, or PROGRAM 
FILES folder.

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Are you sure thath the file is called boot.ini, because i cant find it... And teknurd i dont want to format all my other disk, becoz i 100 gb stored there...


On Wednesday, May 7, 2008 at 6:41 am, appleoddity wrote:
>

>If I understand you right, he started installing windows on your second hard drive?
> Like D:?
>
>YOu have to edit the boot.ini file on the C: drive in order to remove the second
>entry that pertains to this installation. This will remove it from your boot sequence.
> You can identify the proper partition because the entries will tell you what drive()
>and partition() the installation is on.. The correct entry will be something like
>drive(0), and the bad one will be drive(1)...
>
>I don't know if it is actually called drive, but take a look, you'll see.
>
>Then just go delete the files off the D: drive like the WINDOWS folder, or PROGRAM
>FILES folder.
>
>

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Most probably boot.ini is a hidden file. You should make it visible by clicking Tools-Folder options-View(tab)-choose show hidden files and folders. Or Simply get in with your first windows, right-click My computer-Properties-Advanced(tab)-Startup and Recovery-settngs-System startup default o/s-edit and this is the boot.ini where you can delete your second windows installation entry.

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thank you very much my friend... i got rid of the 2nd installation.. i m v grateful.. bye bye

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