I have 2 physical drives c: and g: After a crash I installed win2000 on c: I tried to upgrade 2000 to xp, but did not have upgrade cd. It installed xp on drive g: dual boot.. I got upgrade disc and reinstalled xp. It does not dual boot now , goes directly to xp. I would like to get rid of one of the operating systems that are not needed but I am not sure where the new installation went to c: or g: How can I tell? Thank you in advance for any help.
2006-07-26 10:47:06 · 4 answers · asked by Raven 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Physical unplug the G drive and boot the PC. At that point you will know whether you are running from C or G. If it boots fine without the G drive present, you can format the G drive and continue to run Windows XP from C.
If it does not boot right, reinstall XP without the G drive present. Then put G back and reformat it. Continue running XP off the C drive.
2006-07-26 10:53:03 · answer #1 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If win2000 was installled on C, then the upgrade verson of winXP was probably also installed on C. The version you installed on G is probably also still there, so you could probably delete either one and still be fine. You can always reformat both drives and then start the installation again.
2006-07-26 10:54:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it were me and I didn't care about anything on the hard drives, I would do a fresh install on C:\ of XP. Once that was done I would go into disk management and format G:\.
2006-07-26 10:53:03 · answer #3 · answered by EG345 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to Start
Click on Run
Type in MSConfig and press enter
switch to the BOOT.INI tab
Default=Multi(0)Disk(0)...
For the Disk 0=Master Drive 1=Secondary (slave) drive.
2006-07-26 10:53:44 · answer #4 · answered by malkier8567 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋