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Offline Grey Wolf

Windows XP: Partitions and Uninstall
on: September 21, 2003, 01:01:56 am
I just replaced my motherboard and processor, and I have a bit of an interesting problem on my hands.

I had set aside 3GB of space on my hard drive for the NTFS partition to hold XP after the reinstall. The parts replacement worked fine, and XP reinstalled and activated perfectly. However, I had one problem: My old copy of Windows XP was still sitting on the other partition.

Is there any way to remove it safely WITHOUT deleting/formatting the partition?
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Offline Turnsky

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Re: Windows XP: Partitions and Uninstall
Reply #1 on: September 21, 2003, 01:08:28 am
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Originally posted by Grey Wolf 2009
I just replaced my motherboard and processor, and I have a bit of an interesting problem on my hands.

I had set aside 3GB of space on my hard drive for the NTFS partition to hold XP after the reinstall. The parts replacement worked fine, and XP reinstalled and activated perfectly. However, I had one problem: My old copy of Windows XP was still sitting on the other partition.

Is there any way to remove it safely WITHOUT deleting/formatting the partition?


hmmm... okay..

just delete the entire windows directory on the old partition..
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Offline Grey Wolf

Windows XP: Partitions and Uninstall
Reply #2 on: September 21, 2003, 01:10:48 am
That's all that's required? I'd have thought that MS would have forced me to do all sorts of stupid commands to do it.
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Offline Turnsky

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Windows XP: Partitions and Uninstall
Reply #3 on: September 21, 2003, 01:31:22 am
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Originally posted by Grey Wolf 2009
That's all that's required? I'd have thought that MS would have forced me to do all sorts of stupid commands to do it.


Trust me, it works.. unless you're running the same install of XP you intend to delete, there're shouldn't be any probs
   //Warning\\
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do not torment the sleep deprived artist, he may be vicious when cornered,
in case of emergency, administer caffeine to the artist,
he will become docile after that,
and less likely to stab you in the eye with a mechanical pencil
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Offline Grey Wolf

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Reply #4 on: September 21, 2003, 01:32:34 am
It appears you're right. Had to remove it from the boot.ini too, but nothing too hard. Thanks :)
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Offline Turnsky

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Windows XP: Partitions and Uninstall
Reply #5 on: September 21, 2003, 01:37:03 am
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Originally posted by Grey Wolf 2009
It appears you're right. Had to remove it from the boot.ini too, but nothing too hard. Thanks :)


no probs..

i guess the MCSE stuff i did, didn't go to waste after all:p
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do not torment the sleep deprived artist, he may be vicious when cornered,
in case of emergency, administer caffeine to the artist,
he will become docile after that,
and less likely to stab you in the eye with a mechanical pencil
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Windows XP: Partitions and Uninstall
Reply #6 on: September 21, 2003, 02:11:35 am
XP installs some **** into the MBR and partition boot record, but as the new install probably sticks its loader automatically into the MBR (and is set to use your new partition boot sector), so there shouldn't be any problems.
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Offline Grey Wolf

Windows XP: Partitions and Uninstall
Reply #7 on: September 21, 2003, 03:46:10 pm
The change I had to make to the boot.ini was to remove the old install from the list, so it would automatically boot the new install.
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