HELP! Installed XP twice.. and now trying to get rid of one installation..... how?

[FindSP.com]

Hello all

I'm in a bit of a Jam..

Let me explain my problem to you and hopefully someone of you will be able to help me out.

First I formatted my PC... that was ok - then I tried to install for the first time - Windows XP - the first installation was unsucesfull and I had to reset in the middle without being able to remove the remains of this installation of my PC - I just didn't format the pc again..

Now, in the second installation it succeeded and I thought it would overwrite the first installation and everything will be ok... but WRONG!!!!!!!! what I have now is the following:

whenever I turn on the computer I get the option to chose between 2 OS - one which is functional and one which doesn't work - the remains of the first installation as you may guess..
It also makes the computer very slow...

So My question is how do I get rid of the remains of the first OS without formatting the computer again?

Hopefully one of your smart fellows will be able to help me..

Please try - it would be really great to see this old machine working as fast as it can... I'm sick of waiting for 2 minutes opening outlook on this PC :)
Thank you very much

Looking forward hearing from you.

[101sales]

Now thats quite a jam you're in.

Because the 1st installation only completed partly there is no way in completely uninstall it because Windows will be looking for directories and files that don't exist. I've never run into that problem before but because XP is so integrated in to the system you'll probably need to format your HD again. It would be more work than it's worth to try and get rid of every trace of the first install.

When you installed the 2nd time there should have been an option that allowed you to overwrite the 1st OS install.

What you may be able to do is "repair" the 1st install and then uninstall it??? XP is pretty smart about that. That's a long shot but It could work. what happens when you try using the 1st one?

[net-trend]

Okay,

which direcotry is your 1st install in?

which directory is your 2nd install in?

Are they in the same place?

If they are, no need to worry about the 1st install.

If they aren't delete the 1st install directory.

The multiboot option will still be there but you can use a program like "TweakXP" to remove that annoyance.

[FindSP.com]

That's alright with the boot.ini I fixed the problem already thanks anyways :)

[StLHosting]

yep, pretty easy jam to get out of actually if i seen this earlier i would have replied :D