2 partitions in Hard-Drive, how do I delete #1 and keep #2?

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by cryptologist3, Feb 26, 2010.

  1. cryptologist3

    cryptologist3 Private E-2

    I recently had my Computer Crash and I loaded another Windows XP OS but this time it is Professional and my previous version was Student. Now my Computer drags and I would like to get rid of the Student Part of it and possibly speed my CPU up. HELP!
     
  2. necro61

    necro61 Specialist

    Hey there,

    You said you've loaded another Windows XP over student, I havent heard of a windows xp student edition all I know of are XP Home and XP Professional and several other variants, but not a student edition.

    I would like to clarify if you are talking about the computers operating system Windows XP, or potentialy Office XP which is application software and does have a student / academic and professional variants.

    If you have in fact installed another operating system such as Windows XP professional (and not Office XP professional) on a separate partition you may want to identify which partition has the "crashed version" with issues and delete this.

    Can remove the partition or format it to delete information.

    I would suggest doing a "disk clean up" and a defragmentation of your Hard drive before attempting anything else, also backing up all you files before proceeding with a format etc would be some very good advice for you to take onboard.

    L8r:wave
     
  3. ASUS

    ASUS MajorGeek

    Boot to the OS you want to keep then go to Disc Management and format the the partition containing the unwanted OS, that will get rid of it.

    For what it worth... having two OS on two separate partitions wont make your PC Drag...
    your problem is something else maybe what cuased to to crash in the first place

    you might run a HDD diagnostic, make sure your HDD isnt taking a Crap.......
     
  4. augiedoggie

    augiedoggie The Canadian Loon - LocoAugie (R.I.P. 2012)

    Just to add to ASUS's excellent post, check your RAM memory too using memtest86+. Just to be thorough. Having multiple OS's will not affect anything except how much HDD space you use. Perhaps you have some malware too? What error messages did you get when your student edition crashed?
     

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