I caught a virus on my laptop and had to reinstall windows. the first attempt wiped everything out but I had purchased a faulty disk and it was not complete. I purchased a new disk and it installed beautifully. Now I have two operating systems on my computer at the startup. Do you know how to delete the partial one and leave the whole one? It is on and emachine if that helps.
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The best thing to do in this case is for you to reformat like the others have suggested and install a fresh copy of XP but if you have never done this it might throw you at first. With your machine on, stick in your copy of XP in then reboot. Then after it starts to reboot it will ask you "press any key to boot from CD" Press any key at this point and then wait for it to inspect your systems hardware then it will load some common drivers etc. After that it will look to see if you have any previous versions installed. When it shows you those other versions it will ask you if you want to continue installing Windows on this drive or something like that. At this point you want to get rid of the previous versions and any partitions. If you read carefully you can delete any other versions and/ or partitions and then install a fresh copy of XP. Make sure that you have gotten rid of all other OS's and partitions and if you have it will say "to install on this partition press enter" and you should see "new(raw)" and then however many MB's your drive is. At this point press enter and it will ask you "install XP NTFS or install XP NTFS(quick). Use the first one "install XP NTFS" Press enter and it will start to format the drive and then let it install XP and your all set.
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it should replace it automatically , unless u install at a different directory , then u need to format the hard disk partition , take care if u intall two windows at one partition , that formatted all , no delete for windows ,
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Do you want to find them, or delete them? Not so self explanatory. Short of formatting the drive and doing a government wipe, bits and pieces of whatever is on there, will stay on there. Recovery software, generally, is only going to restore the operating system.
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I think you might have to delete the partitions then create one partition for your whole drive.  I hope it works out for you.
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Hmm sounds like a virus problem. Have you done a scan lately? You might want to scan your computer. How far did you restore it? You need to go to Control Panel, then Programs, then Accessories, then System Tools. There is a system restore option in that folder. You might want to try a restore to a date when your computer was actually working correctly.\n\nThe other method is to reformat. You can just reinstall windows again and it will format your hard drive and you can start fresh. It will wipe all viruses and it will make your computer brand new. But you will need to back up your data before you do this.
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Why was the choice made to use the System recovery CDs that came with your PC vs. the System Restore option?\n\nIn most cases the "System Restore" will restore your PC to the point that it was last updated or new software was installed.\n\nTime and disks requested depends on what needs to be recovered/restored. Normally you put in Recovery disk 1, a complete restore might ask you to insert the next disk, and so on.\n\nSo, it is not normal for your system to ask for the same disk over and over again, unless it wasn't able to do what it suppose to do.\n\nIf running, Windows 2000 or XP and still are having problems after running the Recovery disks. Try to cold boot the system and press the F8 key, as soon as you turn on the PC, to start the PC in Safe mode. Then click Start>Help and support>Select "Undo changes to your computer with System Restore".
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Nah, just format D:, assuming you don't have anything there you want. If you do, you'll either need to move what you want to keep off of it first, or you can just go through and delete it manually. As long as you're booting from C: it shouldn't be using any of the windows files on D:, so you wont have any problem deleting them.
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go to BIOS (rapidly press delete or f10 during startup) and set your computer to boot to cd. Insert your os cd and run through the installation. at one point, you should recieve a prompt about drive partitioning. delete all partitions you see here, then create a new one, format it using NTFS (either quick or standard, you should see a prompt or the computer will do it for you) and then reinstall your os.\nHope this helps!
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Sometimes you can get your windows to restart by re-installing windows again. I've seen this kind of freeze up before and by re-installing windows I managed to get the computer to fully load so I could back up my information before formatting and re-installing windows from the beginning. You could try continuing after getting it to fully load but if there's a virus or something your AV can't find it will just happen again.
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It could one of a few things A) Worst Case is that it is a virus in which case you have 3 opitions.\n1. Zero the harddrive and reinstall windows. Now by "Zero" the harddrive i don't meen just reformat it. To zero a harddrive is to completely write over the data on it with 0's. This will completely eleminate any viruses on your harddrive so that you can reinstall windows.\n2. Download a virus scanning software like AVG Free Edition. Some of the freeware versions of virus software are acutally better then the ones you can purchase and they are updated more often.\n3. Take it to a computer tech who may charge as much as $79 or more for virus and spyware removal. More often then not the tech will just suggest the first opition that i gave you or just a regular reformat.\n\nNow option B is that you have a limited user account on your computer. If this is the case you need to login to an Administrator account and use add and remove programs.
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You may want to run a virus scan on it.  It doesn't sound good.  Try to backup your data file as soon as possible.  The last resort is to format your drive and start over with installing windows.  Good luck.
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When it is a hardware problem, I'll take it to computer shop. But when it is something other than a hardware problem, I'll fix it myself. Want to know how? Simply reformat and reinstall windows. I love doing it.
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At this point I would repartition, reformat and re-install.  This will erase everything.\n\nIf you are running XP, insert the XP disc and reboot the computer.  When the setup program runs, you can delete the existing partitions and make a new one.\n\nYou can find instructions here:  http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=313348
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Hi, a question to you is this:\nDid you reinstall Windows XP on a different Folder or same folder WINDOWS ? \n\nI assume you did it on a different Folder, because WIndows WONT let you install windows again on the same folder. (C:/WIndows/)\n\nOkay if it is on a different folder, then delete it... And delete the old Document and Settings. That will remove the old stuff.\n\nYes, when you open up boot.ini in notepad, you can remove the boot choices, so what you did is removed the other choice inorder to boot up on one machine.\n\nOkay so you have 70GB (capcity) and it says you have 30GB free... So 40GB is gone somewhere... \n\nNow you said you have 10GB added all together.. Including windows? How did you check your space of the files?\n\nFor example my ( DOCUMENT AND SETTINGS ) + ( WINDOWS ) Folder are 5GB.\n\nYea you seem correct 10GB is for all files... \n\nSo I assume you forgot to delete the old Windows HD And Document and Settings OLD files.. You have to enable hidden files and enable show system files. You will see them there.\n\nIf not... Try reformatting your PC correctly :x  \n\nHope it works out for you
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You now have a "dual boot" machine.  When the BIOS looks for the OS and sees that there is 2, it will alway go to that screen you're talking about.  What you'll need to do is format both partitions.  Unless you have files you NEED to keep on one of them, this is the best way to start over.  It will save you plenty of headaches in the future.\n\nUse the formatting and partition tool in the XP setup.  When it asks you what you want for the sizes, use your current setup (10 and 70) but make a third.  Make it 1GB and label it "swap".  Windows will look at this partition as pure virtual memory.  Don't use this drive or erase anything on it.  It will always have about 990MB in it of misc crap.  After creating your partitions and formatting them all, install XP on the 10GB part and you should be good-to-go.
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An installation program almost invariably inserts a "key" in to the O/S registry. When the files are deleted the registry key remains and this can royally fuck with your system.\n\nUnistall programs are there for a reason as is the "add/remove programs" entity in the control panel. If the guy doing the uninstalling doesn't realise this(or, even worse, ignores this) then he shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a business network.
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You can use a program like CCleaner (freeware) and manually uninstall all of your programs. You can then reformat the drive. If you perform an OS reinstall, don't select repair. Reinstall the OS fresh, and that will remove everything and start over.