HELP!!! Too many versions of WINXP!!

luvkatz · Jun 4, 2004

Hi:
I have had to re-instally WinXP THREE times after crashes. Now I have three versions on my system and I don't know how to combine them, get rid of the others or what do I do?? PLEASE HELP!!

Major Attitude · Jun 4, 2004

I would suggest a final clean install and learning to use System Restore (in control panel, system) system recovery (choosing repair from booting from the XP cd) or making an image of your hard drive with Acronis True Image or Nortons Ghost.

These crashes have a reason and you might want to dig into it. I have no info to go on, but cover the basics. Get the latest drivers for all hardware, install SpywareBlaster, keep Ad-Aware or Spybot handy, anti virus that is current, Windows Update auto updating critical updates and a decent firewall if you dont have a router.

luvkatz · Jun 4, 2004

Hi:
OK....all that you suggested, I have done. The crashes are my OWN fault cause....doing stupid stuff. I have Ad-aware and all the other programs you speak of downloaded from this site. I just want to know how to get rid of or delete the remaining two versions of WINXP that I am not using cause it is eating up my hard drive and making the third version of XP unstable. Can you tell me how to delete the other two versions without crashing my system again?? Thanks!

Major Attitude · Jun 4, 2004

Its new to me, unless its in add\remove programs, I would be hesitant to delete anything operating system related. As I said, if it were me, I would learn from this mistake and clean install, BUT maybe someone else with experience in this can assist?

Anyone?

Adrynalyne · Jun 5, 2004

Do you know what folder the other copies were installed to? Simply delete the folders.

You can remove the extra boot.ini lines by editting the boot.ini.

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

The extra OSes will be listed under [operating systems].

Be careful in what you remove.

If the first line of your boot.ini (OS boot menu) is your default OS, then the entries that need to be removed are after this:

[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
"extra lines will be listed under this"

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