I just purchased this Dell laptop on eBay and when it boots up, I have to choose which Windows XP to start in.They both are identical. When I have tried going into the second one listed below the first win xp, it says something to the effect there is nothing there.
I installed two installations of windows xp on accident on my laptop hard drive.I tried to do a repair install but the cd I used was a silent install cd for windows and I forgot it was.So I ended up with two windows XP installs on my hard drive, both on partition C.The folders on the C drive are C:WINDOWS and C:WINDOWS.0. Both load with its own set of programs for it, one has games and other software on it, the other has basic software on the install CD. Both had firefox on it which caused problems with firefox losing my settings/links and not keeping them.I have thunder bird email on my 2nd installation but I can't access it with my first windows install.What I want to do is delete the 2nd version of windows which I don't use. I am not sure if its C:WINDOWS or C:WINDOWS.0.The newer one shows up first in the OS menu when I first boot my computer.
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I installed Windows Xp twice on my computer on 2 several partitions the other day, the reason were for some testing.When I went to the BIOS and deleted the Partition which I did not need, my pc restarted but somehow it went to the Dual Boot again? Now it just annoys me that It can't boot by itself because I have to choose the system that is working, how do I delete the other one, so XP just starts with the one that is working by default?
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