How to delete a windows installation?

veganmav · #1 08-30-2005, 03:02 AM

I have 3 versions of windows installed on THIS laptop. I want to delete two of them, but I have no idea how! Please help!

(I've tried putting in the windows disk and looking for somethin but couldn't find anything)

#2 08-30-2005, 07:22 AM

Hi vegan,

Could you please tell us which versions of windows are present and also if you are actually able to boot into each and everyone of them? Do you have a choice at the start?

If you can't choose from the start which version boot, how do you know that it's 3 seperate installations. It's easy to fix, just will need a little more info and I'm pretty sure everyone here will considering we wouldn't want to screw up all 3 [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

veganmav · #3 08-30-2005, 08:48 AM

they are 3 versions of windows XP, and yes i have a choice at the startup of which version of XP I want to chose to startup.
And yes I can boot into all of them

thanks for the help

#4 08-30-2005, 09:03 AM

Do you know if they are all on seperate partitions...

veganmav · #5 08-30-2005, 08:20 PM

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Do you know if they are all on seperate partitions...

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yeah they are seperate partitions

#6 08-30-2005, 09:24 PM

You wouldnt need to rewrite the MBR, you could just wipe the OS you want removed and change the boot.ini file.

#7 08-30-2005, 01:01 PM

You probably are recognizing the service packs, how many megs are each of the versions.

#8 08-30-2005, 01:09 PM

Doubtful as he can boot in each version and has a boot menu. If they are seperate partition it's just a matter of whipping them out and re-writting the MBR.

#9 08-30-2005, 01:15 PM

yeah true, the original post was a little vague.