Hi,
I am a regular user of a computer but am no way stretch of imagination a genius. I have a Dell INSPIRON 600m. Two years ago, I had my hard disk DIVIDED into two subdrives C and G. I was also in the process of reformatting my disk and because of something I had to abort my reformatting work in the middle and then restart. As a result, now I have 1.5 operating systems on my laptop. It always give me an option during booting up to choose from the two operating system. Understandably, if I choose the wrong one, it does not boot up properly.
Now, the question is "How to identify and remove that 0.5 operating system from my computer? It is occupying space on my 30GB hard drive and making it sluggish to run since, all of this 1.5 crap in on my c drive, where all the temporary internet files also get stored and I have to sit and maintain this comp regularly to keep it in running condition.
Please help.
Thanks in Advance.
Both Windows ? ?
If so you can check in Windows Explorer to see how they are listed...
For example it may say WinNT and then have a 2nd folder CALLED Windows...let us know.

You COULD also right clik any shortcut on the working 1/2 select Properties and then Target...make it a Windows component to be sure...
The target line will give you the full path of the shortcut.

If it's Win and Linux i would back up do a complete wipe and start over as there is no easy clean way on this one.Quote from: rajulteredesai on September 13, 2009, 07:52:19 AM

Hi,
I am a regular user of a computer but am no way stretch of imagination a genius.

Really?

I have a Dell Inspiron 600m. Two years ago, I had my hard disk divided into two subdrives C and G.

They are called partitions.

I was also in the process of reformatting my disk and because of something I had to abort my reformatting work in the middle and then restart.

How - AND WHY - did you abort a format?

As a result, now I have 1.5 operating systems on my laptop.

No such thing.

It always give me an option during booting up to choose from the two operating system. Understandably, if I choose the wrong one, it does not boot up properly.
Now, the question is "How to identify and remove that 0.5 operating system from my computer? It is occupying space on my 30GB hard drive and making it sluggish to run since, all of this 1.5 crap in on my c drive, where all the temporary internet files also get stored and I have to sit and maintain this comp regularly to keep it in running condition.
Please help.
Thanks in Advance.

Boot to the OS you want to keep (what OS is it, by the way?). Open Windows Explorer and delete the other OS. Change the bootloader to reflect the change and format the other PARTITION.