How do you Delete an OS on a Dual Boot!?
 

anybody know how to????

i need some help trying to delete an old OS


thank you

Go into Disk Management and remove that partition. Then create a new one in the space you
freed. Actually, make two. A small 4 gig one for swap and the rest for data and your downloasd
folders. Might as well take advantage of the opportunity.

but the two OS's are on one partition....

Do both work? What are they?

it came with windows NT 2000

and then i installed Windows XP a while ago

they both work.... but NT lags alot and has problems with itnernet and pop-ups and such

i have both installation disks ....

please be specific as to what you have on your machine...you say you have a dual boot, yet don't specify if they are both active (i.e. if you have a boot loader menu upon boot up which gives you the choice of what OS to boot into)...basically, how did this second OS get there? it is possible to edit your boot.ini file and for all effective purposes kill of the other OS and then be able to manually delete the files from your HDD...it would be far safer (considering you appear to have storage issues from what you say in another thread) to install another HDD for storage, back up all important data (read any file you wish to keep) and then do a reformat and clean install of the OS you wish to use...you will also have the option of creating a dual boot system with each OS residing on its own individual HDD which has a hell of a lot of advantages....but without any more detailed information from you my hands are tied as it were as to giving you any detailed advice...

looks like you beat me to the draw with your last post, as it wasn't there when I started to type this one....

for safety reasons I still advise the addition of another HDD, and while 250GB drives are currently in use for OS drives, I recommend 160GB max because of lifespan issues...

it shows in disk management

( C: )
PARTITION
BASIC
NTFS
HEALTHY SYSTEM
14.7GB(CAPACITY)
244 MB FREE SpACE
0% free
no fault tolerance
0% overhead

yeah....as noted in the other thread you need another drive..that thing is puny!

you can get a 160GB Western Digital (my preferred brand) EIDE drive (which will work perfectly on your machine) for $84 at a local big name retailer or go online and get the same thing for $49 for an OEM version or $59 for the retail version (which includes cable and software...not necessarily needed assuming your current IDE ribbon is 80 wire)....

since you are complaining about disc space you NEED a larger drive, and why not 'splurge', get one, and create a dual boot system as I describe above...and yes, you can create a dual boot machine with 2 installs of the same OS using the same serial#, which in your case would obviously be XP since you are presently happy with it....if you choose this route, please advise and I will give you instructions as to how I would proceed with the project...

im contemplating if i should put money into this old thang, thats the problem

i basically only use it to DL....

i dont know if i want to by all this stuff for this old timer, i dnt even have a security program running and i havent had a problem with it for years...

well....a drive is a drive pretty much..it can be transferred to a new machine...the only issue here is that obviously (to me) the only type of drive you can presently use is an EIDE type, as SATA drives (the current 'standard') were not around when your machine was built...correction...you can use a SATA drive but you would have to buy a PCI expansion card to do so, and you wouldn't be able to boot off of that drive...but even the most up to date MotherBoards (MoBo) still have at least one EIDE port, which allows for the use of 2 devices connected to it, so you would still be able to use the drive on another system if you desire to in the near future...

other than that, your only choice is to start deleting files and/or burning them to a disc first for backup...e.g. the only way to increase your ability to store data is to get rid of some of the existent stuff on your machine