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My Sister installed Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition on her home computer twice. Is there a way to delete it? She has two copies on the hard drive and it is taking up too much space. Is there a way to delete one copy with out crashing or messing up the other copy? I was gonna ask microsoft but they want me to pay $50. Someone please help.
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Hai, it's very simple. First back up all your data.. then do a clean install on the computer computer which would delete the al the partitions and it would only have one copy.
Let me tell you theirs also a glitch, when ever you install the operating system their would be only one copy installed but when the computer is powering on it shows as two. It's a bug in XP. for that we just need to change the settings. it goes like this.
click start > run > msconfig > boot.ini tab > reduce the time out to 3 sec or 0 sec. restart the computer, when you do that the computer would show the two names, which is a bug but just powers on the computer back to the operating system. THis will not cause any probs.
*** before doing an install of Xp back up the data.****
Let me tell you theirs also a glitch, when ever you install the operating system their would be only one copy installed but when the computer is powering on it shows as two. It's a bug in XP. for that we just need to change the settings. it goes like this.
click start > run > msconfig > boot.ini tab > reduce the time out to 3 sec or 0 sec. restart the computer, when you do that the computer would show the two names, which is a bug but just powers on the computer back to the operating system. THis will not cause any probs.
*** before doing an install of Xp back up the data.****
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- you have to run the WIndows XP installation Disc again. WHne you do it this time, just select repair or access the installation section where it tells you what partitions are on the Drive. Delete the one that is a copy. That will be fun :p. You have to find out what exactly is that partition.0% 0 Votes
- How to remove a second installation of a Windows operating system from a partition
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