hi guys,

need ur help pls.

I have two drives C: and D: . C is just 5 gbs and D: 35 Gbs. Windows Xp was insatlled in C:, but i wanted to reformat it and reinsatll windows.

by mistake i installed it in D:. Now there are two XP's in my system.

I have tried things like in Control Panel (cant c any XP setup) and

OSunistall.exe in Windows/system32. but didnt work.

I cant reformat D: as there is very important data stored in it.

Can anybody pls help me uninstall XP from D: only without affectin other files.


Thnks in advance.COULD you not transfer/ save your "important" data from D: on a flash drive or cd ?
then reformat that hard drive ?thanks for replying,

but im keepin that for my last resort. il have to get couple of CDs and DVD in that case then.

but isnt there any other method.There probably is some other more "in-depth" procedures to do it I'm sure, Wait a bit , another member will surely have some more advice .... I assume your startup sequence now gives you the option of which XP to boot to, otherwise known as dual booting. If this is so then the easiest way to resolve your problem, IMHO, is to edit boot.ini to remove reference to the copy on D: then delete the Windows folder on that drive.

Before trying any solution please ensure that the backup of valuable files is up-to-date. If it is currently not up-to-date then you are at risk of losing all files if your hard drive fails catastrophically.

Good luckBackup all the data you need from D: then format D:thnaks for replys frnds.

I also have a Lenovo laptop. can u guys pls tell me a way to connect it with my desktop so that i can backup beofre a format.


thnkasQuote from: Dusty on August 14, 2007, 04:23:46 PM

I assume your startup sequence now gives you the option of which XP to boot to, otherwise known as dual booting. If this is so then the easiest way to resolve your problem, IMHO, is to edit boot.ini to remove reference to the copy on D: then delete the Windows folder on that drive.

Before trying any solution please ensure that the backup of valuable files is up-to-date. If it is currently not up-to-date then you are at risk of losing all files if your hard drive fails catastrophically.

Good luck

Boot.ini probably comes into the category of "Protected Operating System File" as well as System and Hidden files. It's so long since I changed my Boot.ini file attributes that I can't remember.

By default your system is probably booting to XP on your D: drive as that was the last OS installed so if you just go ahead and delete the files you mention there might be a bit of a problem.

I recommend that you untick the "Hide Protected System Files" box in Folder Options>View then, if you can find Boot.ini, copy it to another folder on your hard drive for backup before editing it with a plain text editor so that it only points to the version of XP installed on C: drive. After that I suggest you rename the files on D: drive which you want to eventually delete. After proving the system you can then delete the D: drive system files to your hearts content.

If you need help with editing Boot.ini please copy/paste your existing file into a response.

OK, that's fine. Edit boot.ini by deleting the final line, that's the one which contains partition(2), save the file and reboot.

You must use a plain text editor such as Notepad. Don't use a word processor as it will insert all sorts of control characters in the file.

Its wokrin finlay.
Thanks for the info.

Quote from: ronald_peterson on August 15, 2007, 09:52:10 PM

Its wokrin finlay.
Thanks for the info.

Thanks for coming back with your success report. If you are happy with the performance of your system you could now proceed to rename or delete the system files from your D: drive.

Good luck