I want to be able to unistall the copy that I loaded on as we managed to retrieve the original copy of XP with all my husbands data on. Can any one advise me again .....please. I think that the HDD must have two partitions as at start-up I am given two boot up options (i.e. two copies of windows).Both copies are bona fida by the way.
Also am I able to save any of these answers to my documents? Okay! yes I am a bit thick...
2006-06-19 01:05:57 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
all good answers but they are the long answers. the simple thing to do would be to copy any personal documents and settings from the second copy and back them up to a DVD.
now use the original microsoft CD and brows around until you find the backup program. install the backup program. now run it and back up the primary partion to DVD-RW or DVD-Rs. make a complete copy of your disk image.
once thats done re-install the one copy of windows it does not matter which copy at this stage as the partion will be over written shortly anyway.
once the install has finished. re-start the browse the cd again for the restore program. set it up then run it select restore and hey presto follow the prompts with your original dvd-rws to hand and you will restore your system. if you have a removable drive (USB) then you can make a copy direct to the removable drive that you can recover from.
you should not need to re-register your version of windows if you do this. but whaen you restore remember to select expand to fill disk or what ever the option is i forget the exact wording now if you fail to select the expand option the disk will be back to the two partion option with only the one partion ready for use.
again any further info feel free to email.
2006-06-19 02:20:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Actually, it doesn't matter. Whether you have two partitions or two physical drives is irrelevant to Windows XP. It sees a partitioned drive as two (or more) physical drives. Simply format the one that you do not want. Right click on My Computer and go to Manage then go to Disk Management. Whichever installation you want to get rid of, right click it and select format. Note you will not be able to format C: drive if it is in use. You will not be able to format the partition that is in use regardless of drive letter. You will have to boot into whichever one you want to keep and format the other partition that way.
But make sure you have moved all the relevant files that you want to keep before doing so to the other partition (the one you are keeping). However, the partitions will remain. If you want to merge the partitions you will have to get a disk management tool like Partition Magic, it can move, resize, merge, format and change the structure of partitions from FAT32 to NTFS, NTFS to FAT32 (not reccomended) and much more. Partition Magic is best for the novice user and it is the only way to merge partitions, http://www.powerquest.com/home_homeoffice/products/system_performance/pm80/index.html
2006-06-19 01:16:39 · answer #2 · answered by conradj213 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Another easy way is to Right Click My computer> Click on the Advance Tab> Now once in there click on Start up and Recovery Button>Once in that screen in the top you will see System Start up, just unchecked the box that says Time to Display list of operating system. Once you have done that, in wont even ask you for a option to choose it will automatically go straight to the default one which is the working one.
2006-06-19 08:32:26 · answer #3 · answered by zypher01_tech 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hi, if you are able to log on to any of the windows versions (select either of the two options at the startup), log on and then go to add remove programs. look for windows Xp as it forms an uninstall info file while loading so that you can uninstall it whenever you desire (you can usually find it at the end of the list and since you have 2 versions installed, it would show twice). click on remove and then it would ask you for various options. keep selecting yes/ no/ ok...you'll get rid of the operating system. you would not lose any of ur husband's work on the computer as long as you do not opt to format the computer.......hope this does it.
2006-06-19 01:15:05 · answer #4 · answered by Jar Jar Binks 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Use the "msconfig" program to remove the unwanted entry from the BOOT.INI file.
After that, you can use the Logical Disk manager to remove the unwanted partition. Make sure you have data backed up before manipulating partitions.
Of course, it doesn't hurt anything to leave the second partition intact unless you need to reclaim the disk space. You could simply remove the unwanted entry from the boot.ini and do nothing else if you wanted to.
2006-06-19 01:14:27 · answer #5 · answered by waylandbill 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Windows Xp has been known to install two boot lines and giving you the choice to pick in 30 sec. If you can click the top xp and it loads just fine, then go to my computer, properties, advanced, startup and recovery uncheck the boxes "time to display.....". This way you haven't made any serious changes to your system and it will boot all they way thru with out stopping.
2006-06-19 03:02:10 · answer #6 · answered by Bill 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to Start, and run msconfig. Here you will see the start up options. In the Boot.ini section you will see that both operating systems are mentioned. Simply hightlight one of the operating systems and delete it.
2006-06-19 01:10:01 · answer #7 · answered by pratchmg 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
um sounds like a partition usually the only way to change that is to reformat, u can save to disk what you can i suppose or use an external burner to copy the files u want to save, i like to email myself things that im saving lol um i guess i can do some research on it email me or use yahoo msnger
2006-06-19 01:08:33 · answer #8 · answered by meowbaby7 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
do this go to the Start button and go to run then type "msconfig". u will c the various OS in the system, delete either of the two
2006-06-19 02:24:02 · answer #9 · answered by coyote 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
with your register-key you can download like that.
2016-05-20 02:00:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋