Got 2 Windows on 1 hardisk?

Question

I accidentally format my window xp after my computer have been crushed by virus,suddenly i got two windows on boot menu.How can i remove infected window without been format again,i also got problem with the installed files because got two windows folder files on my partition c:.Should i just delete the old windows folder,one with the name WINDOWS and the other one is WINDOWS.0.I think windows.0 is new windows.

I've already delete the old/infected windows but still cant delete the files flash9.ocg in the 32 system folder even with safe mode,and my boot startup still have 2 window.How can???

Answer 1

when you restart the pc, hit the boot menu. have the os disk in the drive. just erase the partition that was infected/troublesome. then format it. don't install windows on it. just stop once it's formatted. you will now have two partitions. which is optimal anyway.use the new partition to place music,pics etc on. only put applications on the Windows partition. it does that by default any way.

Answer 2

From my experience:
Get a Windows95 or 98 startup disk and format your whole disk.
If you instruct XP to format a disk or partition it does not do a real format; that's how you finish up with 2 windows folders and a heap of trouble.
It's a lot of work so when you have done this get a imaging program like Norton's Ghost or Acronis Trueimage.
If you can do that you will have great peace of mind because even if a virus wipes out the C partition you can restore everything from the image; 30 minutes and you are back on line.

Answer 3

Just delete the old installation since it offers no more use, the boot menu is just a menu file, Windows offer the option of editing it manually, alongside some other GUI'd boot up options in Control Panel -> System -> one of the tabs.