I was installing a new hard drive and I accidentally installed windows xp twice, is there any way to get one of them off without losing all of my files on the one I use the most?
2007-05-27 04:26:44 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Go to your CMOS boot sequence
(Press F2 or whatever command you need upon boot process)
Put your CMOS to boot from CD-Rom
Put in the install cd and restart your computer
Follow instructions until it asks you to delete a partition
Delete one
2007-05-27 04:31:44 · answer #1 · answered by Zae Boogie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If all your files are on one hard drive and there is ONLY Windows XP on the one you want to remove Windows from, then you can format that hard drive.
Bear in mind that formatting will remove everything from the drive that you format. But if all your files are on the other drive then this should be fine.
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2007-05-27 04:31:50 · answer #2 · answered by Adam 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
copy your files from the other drive and transfer it to the master drive, with the windows. then format the other xp drive.
2007-05-27 04:30:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pull the IDE plug out of the drive that you do NOT want to format and format the remaining drive.
2007-05-27 05:41:05 · answer #4 · answered by mittalman53 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Copy over all your data from both partitions now, then reformat and install properly
2007-05-27 04:32:55 · answer #5 · answered by Harrison H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋