2 copies of XP. How did I remove one?

cimt · 27-09-2008, 17:09

Yup, as the title says.

I've just installed Professional but it never fully reformatted and went over Home like I selected. How can I remove Professional? Also, Professional won't allow me to change the screen resolution so it's huge!

27-09-2008, 17:24

needs graphics driver. Home would have been moved to a folder like windows.old if you used the same partition . Restoring Home would not be possible afaik. I would make sure you get all the drivers installed for your machine

SteevieNiteHeat · 27-09-2008, 21:57

Quote:

Originally Posted by cimt

Yup, as the title says.

I've just installed Professional but it never fully reformatted and went over Home like I selected. How can I remove Professional? Also, Professional won't allow me to change the screen resolution so it's huge!

Backup everything you need, then its a reformat & reload jobby by the sound of it

cimt · 27-09-2008, 22:00

Reformat is the option I picked, yet it just added another OS onto it...

Nikesh · 27-09-2008, 22:30

Did you boot off the CD?

SteevieNiteHeat · 27-09-2008, 22:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by cimt

Reformat is the option I picked, yet it just added another OS onto it...

Well the way to sort that is when u boot from the CD, choose format drive, or failing that, delete the whole partition and start from scratch!

It does work, however, I have never heard of Windows XP adding another OS AFTER formatting a drive