Thread: Removing second operating system

After the problems I recently had with my OS getting a hit during defrag, I had a brain wave and decided to load a second version of XP onto my secondary drive.

My logic was that I have the system boot from C drive and the first OS but if it ever took a hit I could have the system boot from the other OS system on D drive and then just use that to load the backup file (OS as well) onto C drive. I wanted to do this because when I reloaded the backup file to fix my current problem I got my files back but had to reload all the software (and am still loading) and go through all the updates again.

Anyway I loaded a second XP OS but the system still asks which OS I want to use even though I have told the system which drive to boot from. Also the second OS will not read the 'My Documents' files on the original drive.

Any way - not happy with this so I restored my system prior to the loading the second OS but it is still there. So I reformatted the second drive where the second OS was located and the files are removed but the boot process is still looking for it even though I have told the computer to boot from the main OS. While the system works OK it is still looks for the second OS on boot.

So - how do I completely remove the second OS from my computer so that it does not list the now non existent second OS on bootup.

Thanks

Garry

Why do I do these stupid things

Run MSCONFIG and remove it from the boot option.