installed windows twice :S

[paul_wilson]

ohhhh im an idiot :oops:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I tried to Re-install windows and all I've done is install it on another drive partition.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I now have windows installed on C: and D: drives. D: drive WAS my music and vidio file so im backing all my music up as im writing this. also d drive was changed from a FAT format toi "NTFS"(whatever that is)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

seeing that i have both C and D drive with windows on it if i format D drive will i still have my old settings in C?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

also how do i format a drive in XP. i only know how to do it in 98

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

please someone help me ASAP

[paul_wilson]

what i want to do is wipe one partition and keep the others. how do i do it?

[pieboy_87]

if you have a windows XP cd, you can delete partitions and recreate them again during the install... OR, you can use fdisk from an ol' win98 floppy, to delete the "non dos" (NTFS) partition...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(and incase u was still wondering, NTFS is New Technology File System, it offers alot more than FAT32, inc disc compression, file level encryption and sharing, aswell as less chance of data loss due to coruption.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

give me a shout on MSN ([email protected]) or email ([email protected]) if you need any more help

[paul_wilson]

well i got that done after a while.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i restarted thge pc and opened it in the first install of XP pro. then i formated the drive its installed on. the problem is that even though the second version of windows is gone its still asking me at startup what OS to open with.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

how do i fix this?

[pieboy_87]

you can either do it the risky way (you might have to reinstall the other partition if it goes wrong, or the easy, but slightly messy way. ill tell you the easy way as it can be undone again if its done incorrect :D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

go to start>run and type "msconfig" and hit enter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

then, on the "boot.ini" tab of the window that opens, you need to click on the line which corisponds to the option you chose when you boot (so if you select the top OS from the menu on startup, select the top one here)... it will begin something like "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)windows="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect"... then click on set as default. change the timout box to 5 seconds, and reboot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

if that works correctly, and it boots windows fine, go back to that and change the timout to 0 sec. if it doesnt boot, quickly change the OS to boot from on the menu on startup, go back to the MSCONFIG and change the default to the other one...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

you could also try the "check all boot paths" button on the boot.ini tab, and see if it will remove the incorect entry. (i havnt used that before so i dont know)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

hope that makes some sence, im not quite awake so my wording may be a bit confusing!

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Get Partition Magic and wipe the partition you don't want to keep.

 

 

 

And yes you will have your Windows settings on C.

[pieboy_87]

Get Partition Magic and wipe the partition you don't want to keep.

 

 

 

And yes you will have your Windows settings on C.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

hes done that, but the entry for the 2nd boot of windows is still in the boot.ini, so doing what i said will ignore the fact the boot.ini is pointing to the other drive aswell... much safer than editing the boot.ini without understanding it.