i had to redo my windows xp last month how do i get rid of the backup on the c drive?
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Start> All programs> Accessories> System Tools> Disk Cleanup> Select C: drive> Click on 'more options'> Click 'Clean up' of 'System Restore'> Click OK.
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Try this:-\n\n1. Click Start, right-click My Computer, and then click Properties. \n2. Click the System Restore tab. \n3. Click to clear the Turn off System Restore check box (or the Turn off System Restore on all drives check box), and then click OK.
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If you install Windows XP SP2 on a computer that is already running Windows XP SP2, you will create a new uninstall folder on your hard disk drive. This new folder will use 50-100 megabytes of disk space. Every time that you install Windows XP SP2, a new folder is created. \n\nUse any one of the following methods to remove Microsoft Windows XP SP2 from your computer: • Use the Add or Remove Programs tool in Control Panel \n• Use the hidden $NtServicePackUninstall$ folder \n• Use the System Restore process \n• Use Recovery Console \nImportant We recommend that you use the following methods in the order that they are listed.\n Back to the top \n\nUse the Add or Remove Programs tool in Control Panel\n1. Click Start, click Run, type appwiz.cpl in the Open box, and then click OK. \n2. Click to select the Show Updates check box. \n3. Click Windows XP Service Pack 2, and then click Remove.  \n4. Follow the instructions on the screen to remove Windows XP SP2. \n\n Back to the top \n\nUse the hidden $NtServicePackUninstall$ folder\n1. Click Start, click Run, type c:&#92;windows&#92;$NtServicePackUninstall$&#92;spuninst&#92;spuninst.exe in the Open box, and then click OK. \n2. When the Windows XP Service Pack 2 Removal Wizard starts, click Next. \n3. Follow the instructions on the screen to remove Windows XP SP2. \n\n Back to the top \n\nUse the System Restore process\n1. Click Start, click Run, type %SystemRoot%&#92;System32&#92;restore&#92;rstrui.exe in the Open box, and then click OK. \n2. Click Restore my computer to an earlier time, and then click Next. \n3. Click the date that you installed Windows XP SP2, and then click Installed Window XP Service Pack 2 in the Restore Point box. \n4. Click Next, and then follow the instructions on the screen to remove Windows XP SP2. \n\n Back to the top \n\nUse Recovery Console\nWarning The following steps contain information about modifying the registry. Before you modify the registry, make sure to back it up, and make sure that you understand how to restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up, restore, and modify the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: \n256986 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/256986/) Description of the Microsoft Windows Registry \nIf you use Registry Editor incorrectly, you may cause serious problems that may require that you reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that you can solve problems that result from using Registry Editor incorrectly. Use Registry Editor at your own risk.\n\nIf you cannot successfully remove Windows XP SP2 by using one of the previous methods, follow these steps: 1. Insert the Windows XP startup disk in your floppy disk drive or insert the Windows XP CD in the CD drive or in the DVD drive, and then restart your computer. \n\nNote When you receive the following message, press a key to start your computer from the Windows XP CD:\nPress any key to boot from CD\n\nNote Your computer must be configured to start from the CD drive or the DVD drive. For more information about how to configure your computer to start from the CD drive or the DVD drive, see the documentation that came with your computer or contact the computer manufacturer.  \n2. When you receive the Welcome to Setup message, press R to start the Recovery Console.\n\nNote Multiple options will appear on the screen. \n3. Select the Windows XP installation in question. \n\nNote You must select a number before you press ENTER, or the computer will restart. Typically, only the 1: C:&#92;Windows selection is available. \n4. If you are prompted to type an administrator password, do so. If you do not know the administrator password, press ENTER. (Typically, the password is blank.)\n\nNote You will not be able to continue if you do not have the administrator password.  \n5. At the command prompt, type cd $ntservicepackuninstall$&#92;spuninst, and then press ENTER.\n\nNote
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open up my computer, right click on your c drive, goto properties and click the tools tab, from there you can check for disk errors and defragment your hard drive. the third oprtion for back up is handy but requires a device to store large amounts of date, if you have a dvd burner that will work fine too. Other tasks to preform routine maint click on the general tab, and next to the pie chart is a button that states Disk clean up. this will help you remove files that windows has determined as unnecessary. a final option routine maintenace would be updating your anit-virus definitions and running a complete system scan, and preforming both adware and spybot scans.\n\nIf you do not have an anti-virus program try this, its free:\n\nhttp://free.grisoft.com\n\nAdware removal:\n\nwww.lavasoft.com\n\nSpybot removal:\n\nwww.safer-networking.org/en/download/\n\nalso the biggest thing you can do for your operating system is make sure you keep it uptodate by going here:\n\nhttp://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
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formatt the whole thing and reinstall windows
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While reinstalling fresh windows XP, select the C drive partion to install OS, this wont delete the files on D drive, make sure you dont delete the partitions..or you have to struggle to get those files back...\n\nHowever if you have by mistake formatted the hard disk, try using some recovery softwares..\nThat would help you..
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If you are using it on another computer of your own, just plug it in as a slave drive and then if using Win XP, just go to My Computer and right click on the drive. Then select format and it will wipe it clean for you. \n\nIf you are just going to install windows on it then just format at windows setup.\n\nIf you are not going to be the user of this computer and want to protect your privacy use a tool from http://www.download.com to do a deep format - one in which data cannot be recovered.\n\nGood Luck
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First you want to backup any files on the C:&#92; drive that you want to keep. Once that is done you can open My Computer right click the C: Drive and click Format.  This will format that drive and erase any unwanted data.
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If your XP OS resides on C drive, reformat C drive means wiping everything out, including the XP OS. And you will need to reinstall the XP as well as all the applications and device drivers you are using rightnow.
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Never. Try AntiVirus. Or if you certainly want to remove it fine. Never format hard drive without having full knowledge on this. No then call an assistant from the company of your computer model. Yes if u are sure then restart your computer and keep pressing F8. And choose Run in Command Prompt (or Prompt or other). Then open the C dive by typing C: then type format /s (remember to put /s otherwise your hard disk is then a total waste). I would strongly recommend a technician. G LUCK
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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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You should be able to do that.  \nTry the System Restore which takes you back to a time when your computer was working good. Go To: \nstart\nprograms\naccessories\nsystems tools\nsystem restore\nThis process is completely reversable. And does not remove your personal files.  Just go back one checkpoint at a time until your puter is working good again.\nE
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Best way would be to use to restore CD (if you have it) for your computer.  That basically whipes off everything and takes it back to how it came out of the box.\n\nYou could also trying cleaning out the computer (cookies, temp files, etc) by doing a simple START --> PROGRAMS --> ACCESSORIES --> SYSTEM TOOLS --> DISK CLEANUP, if you dont have the cds.\n\nYou can also contact the manufacturer giving them your make and model computer and they will send you the restore CD for a relatively modest price -- @35 bucks.\n\nNow, if you have your own version of windows without a restore CD, then you simply format the drive, and reinstall the entire operating system.\n\nTIP -- If youve updated your drivers, or installed hardware you will save yourself alot of time by getting a program that backs up your drivers, so that you dont have to reinstall the drivers once you reinstall the operating system.  Theres alot of shareware programs that backup drivers.  You can use it once and that will save lots of time.\n\nIf you have win XP then\nYou could also do a Windows System Restore, START --> PROGRAMS --> ACCESSORIES --> System restore and go back to the very first date thats bolded on the calendar.  Which will return your system settings back to the way they were on whatever date you had them.\nThis with your system clean up should do you just fine.\n\nHope it helps
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If you want to just free up the space, From windows xp, right click on my compuer.. click manage.. go into disk management.. select the partition you have windows 98 on, and go ahead and reformat it using NTFS file format.. this will erase your files and reformat the partition
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Go to the properties of C drive and click on Disk Clean up it will take time because your system has huge unwanted data, but it will work wait for some time. Hope it will work !
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No. There is no eay way. Perhaps the easiest is to simply buy another hard disk (if you can actually install one in your hardware) and install a fresh copy of the operating system on it, making it the a new c drive, but this raises some particular issues. Some applications (and many operating systems) require that certain files (configuration stuff, for instance) be on the same drive from which the system has booted (or on which the application is installed). So changing to a new drive like this will involve some obscure issues dependent on not so obvious details of how this or that program (including the operating system) was designed and implemented. \n\n==========\nThere are some things you'll have to think about here, before you do anything at all. I'll assume you aren't going to get a new hard disk, and discuss the problem as you laid it out. Namely, reformatting the existing C drive and reinstalling your system on it. \n\nDo you really need to reformat? You may be able to reinstall Windows over itself, and if a damage Windows file is part of the problem, escape without the major pain of reformatting. \n\n========\nFirst, without the installation CD (or copies of all the files from it) you're sunk. I'm not sure from what you say whether you have a copy of the CD on your second drive or not. If you don't ... Trouble lies that way. \n\nSecond, You must backup everything you have on the C drive that is not reinstalled from the distribution disks. And you must be certain that whatever backup method you choose will be able to actually read the backup formatted files after the reinstallation. It is not unusual, sadly, for some backup programs to be unable to actually read in the backup files it creates. \n"Backup" includes the operating system (Microsoft has dropped support for 98 and for SE, so you would be well advised to update -- my suggestion is to 2000, but some folks are willing to settel for 2000 Lite -- ie, XP. Or even to make this your opportunity to switch to a vendor who poses fewer problems -- the main option as I write this is one of the kind_of_Unixen), Linux -- my favorite is the SuSE distribution). And "backup" includes application files as well. Identifying just which files these are, and where they are is not always easy. Clearly all your pictures and documents you've written and would qualify, but applications (and operating systems) usually have several configuration files, history files, backup files, index files, ... which it will save time to have copes of. But, if an application doesn't provide for saving these and reinstalling them over a fresh installtion of the application, ...  There will be problems here as well. You might have to reconfigure some or all of your applications (and the operating system too) after reinstallation. this is a pain, but may be unavoidable...\n\nThird, you must be certain that any new hardware you've installed will be recognized by the Windows boot routines at reinstallation time. It might be wise to start a reinstallation (with the intent of cancelling it essentially immediately) to test whether the BIOS will call up the Windows installation routines from wherever they are, and whether they will be able to find the new hardware. Since hardware support (ie, drivers and design troubleshooting) for 98SE has mostly been dropped, increasingly more hardware will not be supported for 98SE.  Without support, you'll have to write your own drivers -- not recommended.\n\nFourth, you must, when reinstalling, configure your software in ways which are compatible with how they used to be configured, lest there be odd (perhaps fatal) happenings from the incompatibilites. Some things don't matter -- like icon colors or the shape of the cursor, but some will.\n\nFifth, keep a record of what you did and why at each step of the way, starting before you begin backing up. Include all instructions (and options) and the immediate re
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if you upgraded from windows 2000 or 98 you can have option in add-remove to roll back but normally you can't except you format your harddrive or you can also upgrade xp home to xp professional\n\nHere are steps from Microsoft website\n\nHow to remove Windows XP\nTo remove Windows XP, follow these steps:1. Restart your computer in Safe mode. To do this, press the F8 key while Windows is starting.  \n2. Log on with an account that has administrative credentials. \n3. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click Add or Remove Programs.  \n4. In the list of installed programs, double-click Uninstall Windows XP.\n\nNote If Uninstall Windows XP is not in the list of installed programs, you must manually reinstall Windows 98 or Windows Millennium Edition. In this case, make sure that you back up all your critical data before you reinstall Windows 98 or Windows Millennium Edition. \n5. When you receive the following message, click Yes to start the Windows XP removal: \nAre you sure you want to uninstall Windows XP and restore your previous operating system?  \n6. After Windows XP is removed, your computer restarts to the previously-installed operating system. \n\nhttp://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q303/6/61.asp&NoWebContent=1\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to Uninstall Windows XP Home and install Windows XP Professional \nSaturday, September 3, 2005 at 5:03 pm\nWindows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum \nPosted by Kevin (2371 messages posted) \n\nOf course, doing this will destroy all your data. I hope you did a backup! \n\n\nOn Saturday, September 3, 2005 at 4:58 pm, Steve wrote:\n>Set CD rom to be first boot Device in Bios\n>You boot to your XP CD\n>At the Partiton Screen Choose to Delete all Partitions\n>Then Create new Partitions "This erases the old XP"\n>Then The Format will start "Choose ntfs or Fat 32"\n>Then the install of XP starts\n>After Install check device manager for misssing Drivers\n>Add missing Drivers.\n>Before going online setup Firewall.\n>Add your programs.\n\nHere is source\nhttp://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/1125792199