I installed two windows xp pro on the same laptop by accident. Now I wanna remove the 1st windows Xp( For some reason I cannot remove the 2nd one) Pls help me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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it shouldn't be a problem. if you simply installed it twice, then the newer one should have overwritten the older one. if you can see 2 (c:&#92;windows, c:&#92;windows2) delete the smaller number one (the newer one will have a higher number.) Don't rename the 2nd one, because the paths have already been set.
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Bollox,  all your answers are Bollox, Except one. I'm not being abusive, but look at the state of it! A Mess.. the guy asked for information to help solve the problem, not to be told to reinstall Windows!\n\nROX has the best answer here, by far. I mean, It's helpful for god's sake!\n\nGeeze...
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well, the easiest and the most reliable way is to download Disk Director partitioning software. It's not safe to operate with windows utilities, because when u create partition within widows  u lose data. Besides, ADDS is rather cheap utility and u won't need to uninstall XP.
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Dunno if u can get 2 run fdisk\ndelete partitions\nre-create partitions \nmake c: active\nformat c: & d:\ninstall win xp on c:\n\nbest of luck !
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Get a copy of Windows XP and install it.\n\n-J
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you can't uninstall Windows XP as its the OS. for removing windows xp you would have to format the hard drive using Windows XP cd (assuming you want XP again)\nFor booting the system through CD you would need to make the CD drive the first bootable device and boot the system making sure that the CD (Windows XP) is in the drive  and follow the onscreen instructions.
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the question is not clear. \nyou had an old copy of xp - WHERE. on a CD or PC?\n\nif it was on a CD - then it has no registry.\nif it was on another PC - then startup up that PC, click start->RUN->type"regedit" and search the registry for the KEY.\nif it was on this new PC (on which you installed XP again) - then the old registry is gone, as it was re-written by the new one.\n\nyou bought a new pc and installed XP - SO WHERE WAS THE OLD XP?
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You need to get the XP pro upgrade.  It should come with a new recovery disc.
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If you have a 32 bit processor install the 32 bit.\n\nIf your processor is 64 bit then install the 64 bit version.\n\nI have an AMD 64 bit processor and I put XP Pro 64 bit on my system. Since there are not many applications that take advantage of 64 bit it really isn't doing much.\n\nMicrosoft gave me a free upgrade to XP-64 so I couldn't turn it down.
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There are two primary ways to install XP.  You can do a full install which completely wipes out your hard drive, or you can do a Repair Install.  A Repair Install will NOT erase your programs or change your personal settings.  You will have to visit the Windows Update site to reinstall any updates that came out after your XP install disk was made (including SP2 if it's not on the disk.)\n\nThis link give you step by step instructions for a Repair Install, including actual screen shots of what you will see. I selected XP Pro but the steps are the same for XP Home.  I'd suggest trying the Repair Install first.  It takes about an hour.  The Windows Updates will take about another hour.  If the problems are fixed, great.  A full install takes about the same amount of time, but then you've got to reload all your other programs and put your personal settings back the way they were.  And that could take all day.  Hope this helps.\n\nhttp://www.windowsxpprofessional.windowsreinstall.com/installxpcdrepair/indexfullpage.htm\n\nplrr
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Hello, \n\nOK there are two ways depending on your situation. If you have one computer and you want to wipe the Hard Disk and do a fresh install of Windows (I just did that two days ago) to get rid of all that annoying junk, slowness and even viruses then the answer is yes. You have to boot from the WinXP Pro CD. When going through the setup process some of the first options you will find are which partition you want to install XP on. At this stage there are options to format the disk. However if you just reinstall Windows you wont need to choose the Format option as the new Windows will not be able to access any of the other files and you will get a completely clean registry. and completely clean Windows.\n\nIf you have two computers and you want to format a Hard Disk of the other computer you can take out the Hard Disk and put it in the other computer as either a slave drive (The next drive in line) or just connect it to the cable where the CDRom Drive is. Disconnecting the CDRom drive. This is the IDE 2 cable. In this case you dont need to boot from a CD you just boot Windows as usual with the OLD disk now connected to the CD cable or the second plug on the cable of your main Hard Disk (slave).  When Windows boots up and you open explorer you will see an extra HD icon you didnt see before if the disk is active (usable). If its not there dont worry yet. Now got to Start > MyComputer and Right click and choose Manage. Choose Disk Management in the Computer Management Console. Youll see Disk 0 your main disk youre running Windows from and then the one you just added. Right click the newly added disk and choose format.\n\nThe second option makes it possible for MB viruses and all kinds of things to jump to your clean Windows install so if its a virus problem or suspect file or security issue, I suggest the first option. But only if everything else has failed completely, like virus scanning, adware and spyware scanning.  And remeber youll have to install software and redo all your settings again. IF and only if you can you can make a settings disk to take to the new Windows install before formatting. Choose, Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools and Files and setting transfer Wizard and follow the instructions, youll be glad you did later when importing them onto the new windows install is a breeze.\n\nHope this helps in some way.\nCheers
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Though I do not know why you would want to, you can do that, but you can only use one of those operating systems at a time.  I would not bother though seeing as XP realistically is a much better OS (especially with SP2) and will do everything that 2000 will.  It is up to you, but realize, the OS that is on your default boot drive will be the one that loads up.  So if you set the default boot drive to C: then XP will load.  There are a couple ways around it, but you can still only run one at a time.  Besides, those two would likely conflict with one another anyway.
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Windows XP Repair Installation\n\nAt some point you may need to repair the installation of Windows\nXP. This is preferable to a clean install in many cases since it\nattempts to only repair your copy of windows without having to \ndelete all the files on your computer first. In many cases a \nrepair installation is enough to fix the problem. A repair install\ndeletes the files normally installed by windows XP and then \nreinstalls them off the disc. A repair install will not rebuild \nyour computer's registry, delete applications and user settings, \nor fix problems caused being caused by a program.\n\n1. First you have to boot the computer with the Windows XP cd in\n   the cd tray. You will see a black screen and it will ask you \n   to press any key to boot from the cd so press the spacebar \n   and your computer will boot from the CD.\n\n2. After a moment you will be taken to the Windows XP Setup \n   screen. Though the second option says to repair do not press \n   R. Instead press enter to select the setup for Windows XP.\n\n3. Next, you have to accept the license agreement from windows. \n   Once you've done that it will search for your existing \n   installation of windows.\n\n4. Once it has finished detecting the installation you need to \n   select the XP installation you want to repair. You can repair \n   the installation by pressing R. If you don't see the repair \n   option you will need to do a clean installation. Your version \n   of windows may have been damaged in a way that it cannot carry \n   out a repair. \n\n5. Setup will then copy the files it needs to the hard drive and \n   reboot the computer. A message will come up asking you if you \n   want to boot from the cd, don't press any keys and just let \n   the timer run out. The set up will continue and look like is \n   doing a clean install but all of your applications and \n   settings will be intact when it finished.\n\nAn important note is to not activate your windows over the \ninternet right away. Always enable the XP firewall to protect \nyourself.
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no you wont be able to restore your computer with xp pro or home since you have sp2 installed on your computer.  the best way would be to back up your data somewhere else and then format it with the cd and reinstall the OS
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it is illigal to run multiple pc's using xp\n\nmicrosoft are now checking for illigal copies when you update\nif found you will be asked to buy a new copy but they dont do anything more than give you an anoying pop up
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i had the same problem ethier delete what you dont need or buy a new computer or download your windows again or it might be less then that you have windows 98 and you should have windows xp
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Your best option is to run a repair on your XP installation.\nMake the CD the boot drive, put in you XP installation disk and follow the questions. Once the setup says it  discovered a previous version of Windows take the option of doing a Repair. This will over install your XP and maintain a lot of your setting's