How to remove XP pro to accidental dual boot with XP Home

I had to reformat my wife's computer.  It is a store brand AMD athlon 2500 with 2 GB of ram.  It came with a copy of XP Home recovery disk.  I wanted to create a second logical drive on the computer to store the data, but the recovery disc can not do this.

I used a copy of XP Pro I have to format the hard drive in 2 logical drives here but he installed XP Pro as well.  It is not allowed for this machine.  I thought I would install XP Home Edition from the recovery disk and it would be more to write XP Pro, but it didn't.

Now I have a dual boot with XP Pro and XP Home, I want to keep I want to delete.  It appears after the MESSAGE that there is an option for home or similar to a GRUB menu Pro.

I note in 'My Computer' C: WINDOWS and watch WINDOWS.0 I guess que.0 is the installation of Pro as it happened first.

Any suggestions on how to remove the installation of Pro and leaving the House intact?

Thanks in advance, Al

If you have not used the computer since installing Home and Pro, the best thing to do is to reinstall the House.

Partition Wizard Home Edition "CD Boot" allows you to reformat the partition and reinstall XP Home:
http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html
Note: There is also a CD bootable version
http://www.partitionwizard.com/Partition-Wizard-bootable-CD.html
Some of the features and functions include: resize and move partitions, the recovery Partition after an accidental deletion, Create partition, delete partition,format partition, convert partition, partition Explore, Hide partition, change drive letter, Set partition active, Explorer (content display) of the partition.
Note: To complete any task use the "Pending Operations" box at the bottom left.

JS
http://www.PAGESTART.com

Never be afraid to ask. This forum has some of the best people in the world to help.

Tags: Windows

Similar Questions

  • How to remove linux opensuse in my dual boot system

    I have both linux and windows xp in my system. I want to delete the linux partition without affecting my windows. is it possible to do this then please tell me how to on this topic in stages. Thanks in advance!

    Hello, Shiv83,

    Yes, it's possble

    Remove Linux from a Windows computer

    • 1

      Back up data from your Linux partition (all data you want to keep). As a precaution, back up your Windows partition and operating system (if possible) well as the Windows partition should not be affected.

    • 2

      Restart your computer with the Windows startup disk in the appropriate drive. Type the command "fixmbr" when prompted. This procedure will allow you to only see the windows in the start menu.

    • 3

      Starting in Windows.

    • 4

      Click on "Start", "Control Panel,", "Administrative Tools", "Computer management", "Storage" and "disk management".

    • 5

      Select your hard drive. Select the Linux partition. Delete the Linux partition.

    • 6

      System startup yhttp://www.ehow.com/how_6854019_uninstall-linux-dual-boot.htmlour normally boot into your Windows operating system.

  • Help remove vista and options to dual boot with Windows 7

    I think that I have selected the bits from the right here, but please let me know if not.  I recently installed windows 7 and I love it so much I want to remove vista.

    I can't find any instructions on how to make sure (after formatting the drive with Vista on it - it's on a drive of 500 GB physically separated for Win 7) that I can remove the dual boot option, I currently have.  I also read if I do badly I can leave windows 7 unusable.

    Win 7 is a full do not install an upgrade, just like vista.

    Any help on the Microsoft site means how to repair xp, vista or windows 7, so to delete this post.

    Any help or direction is appreciated, I have a few days to make what I just place my order for a 2 TB HDD, so won't try until it happens.

    Hello

    "Just to check and then (which seems easier to me), if I transfer my data from the vista disc (assuming that it is the system disk) then delete and restart with the win7 dvd, a repair will then sign the Windows 7 disk as the system disk and remove any dual boot option?

    Yes, it should work. As the Win7 disk does not currently startup files, made only with this disc a repair will create the most necessary.

    "Out of curiosity if I format the Vista disc, and then restart your computer with the win7 dvd, this will give the same effect as having Remode the floppy disk in the first place?

    No, except if you use Disk Manager to designate the Win7 drive than active first. If you simply format the Vista disk and then run a repair, startup files will be rewritten on the disk of Vista. Good luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Crazy" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

  • Satellite Pro L40 - how to make a dual boot with two recovery disks

    A small question;
    How to dual boot with two recovery disks ive got with my laptop (Satellite Pro L40)

    discs 1 & 2 are windows vista buisness
    discs 3 & 4 are windows xp profesional
    Disc 5 is updated the bios

    The guy where I bougt garage computer (a metal regular store named expert) says that it is posible with discs tose.
    I have
    I already have a partition, but when I boot from disks, is not has the option to select a partition

    Thanks already

    > Satellite Pro L40 - how to make a dual boot with two recovery disks?
    Short answer: you can't do that. Maybe if you have two hard disks (I tried didn't) but as much as I know your SP L40 has only one.
    Ask this smart guy, how to do this. Maybe it's a useful tip.

  • How to remove Ubuntu to dual boot with Windows 7?

    Original title: how to remove another BONE of two different OS

    So I recently installed Ubuntu and Windows 7 ultimate on my PC but now system completely becomes slow and I could not able to navigate more then an hour and I need to restart it quickly to all an hour and I ask you guys to give me some info on how to remove a Ubuntu from my PC! (I tried system recovery options, but there is no inside notebook where I can remove a BONE)

    How do I uninstall Ubuntu from a Dual-Boot PC Windows safely

  • How to create a dual boot with Vista installed on my Satellite U400?

    Hello

    I just bought a U400 - 17 H with vista installed on the HARD drive. I would like to create a dual boot with XP Pro.

    I have only a drive HARD aleady with 2 partitions (1 for vista) + 1 for data.
    I want to cut the partition vista in two 2 pieces to install XP Pro.
    At the end I'll have 3 partitions 1 vista (65 MB), 1 xp (65 MB) and 1 data (125 MB).

    Is it easily to create a new partition ok (I guess only on vista)
    but is there a program dedicated to install another OS and create a dual boot.

    Please help me because I like many things the other way around. I'm sure it's possible, but what are the right process to have at the end of two BONES and the choice at the start of the laptop

    Thank you
    Gerard

    Hello!

    Create a new partition for Windows XP and install it. There is no problem.

    After that, you need to restore the Windows Vista boot loader. You can do this with EasyBCD. Install and start the program.
    Go to the tab "Add/Remove entries". You will see that there is only one option available in the bootloader of Vista at the moment. In the "Add an entry" section, replace the drive in the menu drop-down of C:\ E:\. Change Type "Windows NT / 2 k/XP / 2 k 3" and the name of "Microsoft Windows XP". Then click on 'Add an entry' and 'save '.
    Then go to the "Manage Bootloader" tab make sure "Reinstall the Vista Bootloader" is selected, then click on "write the MBR.

    Now you can restart the laptop and you should have a full system dual boot to work.

    Good bye

  • Please help me remove GRUB and opensuse 11.4 of my dual boot with windows xp

    I have a dual boot with opensuse 11.4 which I realized later it was too buggy and I don't know how to get rid of it I do not have the windows startup disk, but them were leaving linux are:

    a swap of 2,00 GB,
    An extended partition (holds the bootloader?) 12.00 GB
    and linux itself 16,00 GB.
    Windows 44,00 GB partition
    Space free 9,00 MB
    Help me save windows and get rid of all the rest!
    Please,

    Start the recovery console and run the FIXMBR command to remove the grub from the MBR.  You can download a recovery here Console .iso file and burn it to a CD.

    John

  • Remove the os rom Bootloop (Dual boot)

    I have recently installed Windows 8.1, dual boot with windows 7, I used the VHD, patrician of create for the new operating system. How VHD of Bootloop remover?

    Hi Datta,

    Thanks for posting your query on the Microsoft Community.

    Please post the same query in Microsoft TechNet forum as your face with a virtual hard drive question.

    https://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/Windows/en-us/home?category=w8itpro

    If you have any questions lets us know.

  • Can not start my Mac Book Pro Apple on Dual Boot

    Hey guys - need help

    I have a 2015 Mac Book Pro that I have a dual boot with Windows 10 of setting, everything went well, but I found that I had lost the ability to open any program in Windows, installation of 'apps' thedesktop went, Edge Windows, search etc had disappeared off the coast of the taskbar. Restoring Windows installation wouldn't work, so did a repair through the control panel within Windows 10 who worked and everything in Windows was back to normal.

    But now, I find that I can not boot into the side MAC from my laptop, if I go into my PC the "Bootcamp" of my SSD drive partition is there but no side of MAC.

    Any help would be appreciated.

    Try to start by holding down the Option key.

  • Remove the system to dual-boot with Windows 7 XP

    I'm under a system dual boot with two hard drives. C is XP Home Edition and F is Windows 7 Home Premium. I want now to delete XP and run only Windows 7. Any advice on how to proceed would be welcome.

    OK, so I failed. Thanks for the help but my computer skills is non-existent. Have reloaded Windows 7 from scratch on the old Windows 7 and I am now reloading my programs & database. W J Cheer and thank you for your efforts.

  • How can I configure dual-boot with Windows XP and Windows Vista?

    Vista/xp problem

    Help a friend who currently has installed vista.  What should I do if I want to dual boot with xp (not installed at the time)

    Thank you

    Hello Matthew forse,.

    Here is an excellent tutorial on how Dual Boot Vista and XP.

    Follow the information contained in the 4 pages to the letter.

    I use it in my I.T. business on client computers and recommend it carefully.

    http://www.syschat.com/dual-boot-Vista-XP-Vista-already-1946.html

  • I want to make my windows 7 pro laptop dual booting with fedora 8, I want windows 7 is compatible with fedora 8 _

    I want to make my windows 7 pro laptop dual booting with fedora 8, I want windows 7 is compatible with fedora 8

    I don't know what you mean "compatible". A BONE has nothing to do with each other. You can create a dual-boot with Fedora, of course.

    http://www.Google.com/#hl=en&source=HP&q=dual-boot+Fedora+and+Windows+7&AQ=0&AQI=G1&OQ=dual-boot+fed&FP=b36c7832dbb01be6 MS - MVP - Elephant Boy computers - don't panic!

  • Get Win8.1 Pro with Media Center in Dual Boot with Windows 10 Pro

    In December of 2012, I bought a new Dell XPS12 running 64-bit window 8.  Later, I bought "Win8 Media Center Pro Pack" for Windows Media Center.  Later, I upgraded to Windows 10 pro and lost Media Center.  Given that I had a legitimate copy of Windows 8 Pro with Media Center, I would like to re - install in a separate partition.  I was able to clean install Win8.1 in this partition using a flash drive and the MediaCreationTool.  He did not like my product key OEM Win8, and he didn't like my WMC Pro Pack upgrade key, so I installed using a KMS key that is freely available online.

    Clearly, I go about it the wrong way.  I'm happy to start again and install Win8, then upgrade with my pro WMC pack key, but I do not know the mystical incantations necessary to get there.  Since I had legitimately a Pro Win8.1 with instance of Media Center, and I my self Win10 product key after upgrade, I can't imagine that such a dual-boot configuration would be illegal.  Can someone please help?

    Thank you

    Loki

    Hello

    Eventually your 8.1 installation using KMS will be disabled.

    1. cannot use keys hacked to enable long term of Windows, as you will be taken; It's a matter of time.

    2. the key/license Windows product to describe the operating system, Windows 7, Windows 8.1, etc. is absorbed by upgrading Windows 10 during the installation process and becomes an integral part of the active Windows 10 final installation.

    The license qualifying operating system, either Windows 7 or Windows 8.1, etc. cannot be used anywhere else, or in a dual boot with Windows 10.

    Kind regards.

  • 24 b017c: 24 - b017c dual boot with Win7 possible?

    The b017c is capable of running WIN7 pro in anyway shape?

    I really need to do a system dual boot with WIN7 If Yes.  WIN10 is not be nice to some specific software Attorney that I need to have to work for a client. Win7 is the latest OS, this software is compatible with before an upgrade of expensive software can't be compatible with Win8 or higher (we're talking $1000-2000 range).

    I tried to install WIN7 on this computer after the partitioning of the disk space, and put out several settings in the bios (I had error btw), but WIN7 keeps hanging in the first screen after loading the drivers (language selection screen). Something happens where ports USB closing killing all connections to the mouse and keyboard. I have tried many changes in the bios settings and a retry of the WIN7 Installer (from an installation disc) but no dice.

    Is there a certain combination of settings that must be disabled in the bios to get the win7 Installer right or I'm screwed?

    Thanks for any help

    What an adventure!

    As you discovered, you must completely format the drive as one or the other (GPT or MBR).  You cannot format a GPT partition and the other in the MBR.

    I wonder if you had back and disabled the legacy mode, if W7 would let you install on the GPT - or partition if the disabling legacy mode would also have permitted secure boot.

    In any case, it's water under the bridge.

    Drivers... Here are some that may work...

    First install the driver from the Intel chipset and restart the PC.  A 2nd on the left is the automatic installation file.

    https://Downloadcenter.Intel.com/download/20775/Intel-chipset-device-software-INF-Update-utility-?product=1145

    See if this graphics driver works... 3rd one down on the left is the automatic installation file.

    https://Downloadcenter.Intel.com/download/26228/Intel-graphics-driver-for-Windows-10-and-Windows-7-8-1-15-40-?v=t

    Audio: Accept the agreement.  Download and install the 2nd driver on the list.

    http://www.Realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?langid=1 & PNid = 24 & PFid = 24 & Level = 4 & Conn = 3 & DownTypeID = 3 & getdown = false

    Ethernet: Download, unzip and install the 2nd driver on the list.

    http://www.Realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?langid=1 & PNid = 13 & PFid = 5 & Level = 5 & Conn = 4 & DownTypeID = 3 & getdown = false

    Card reader: download, unzip and install the driver from the 1st on the list.

    http://www.Realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?langid=1 & PNid = 15 & PFid = 25 & Level = 4 & Conn = 3 & DownTypeID = 3 & getdown = false

    Wireless: 2nd pilot down on the left.

    https://Downloadcenter.Intel.com/download/26242/Intel-PROSet-Wireless-software-and-drivers-for-Windows-7-?product=89450

    Bluetooth: 2nd one down on the left.

    https://Downloadcenter.Intel.com/download/26311/Intel-wireless-Bluetooth-software-for-Windows-7-?product=89450

  • Satellite C850 - 19(d) - I want to do a dual boot with Linux and Win 8

    Last week I had a Satellite C85O - PSCBWE-03200WGR 19(d)

    Yesterday, I try to make a dual boot with Ubuntu.

    I do not have a start to boot from USB, or iso CD (same choices as for the Toshiba application), and I did one on the bios:
    -Disable secure boot
    -Change UEFI CSM support
    -Save

    On reboot, I get not Toshiba logo, but a black screen with:

    «This product is covered by one or more of the following patents:...» (list of patents...)

    Realtek...

    PXE - E61: Media test faliure check cable
    PXE - MOF: Exit PXE ROM
    "No boot device - insert boot and press a key.

    I can't open the Bios again at F2.

    Which I recover the system?

    Hello

    The unit has been pre-installed with Win 8 64 bit right?

    Change BIOS setting of UEFI to CSM and disabling secure boot prevent Notepad to start 8 to win!

    That's why the device cannot find the boot device and passes to the last option: LAN.
    But given that the laptop can not find bootable system via LAN, the error PXE - E61: Media test faliure check cable appears.

    If you want to use a dual boot, you will need to boot into Win 8
    Win 8 you must create a partition for installing Linux. This can be down in Win 8 disk management. It must reduce a last partition and have to create new free space available.

    Now to start installing Linux you need support... you can burn the iso on DVD or a USB bootable Linux. There are a lot of details on the internet how to create these media.
    Once you have created the bootable USB key, restart your PC with USB connected.
    Press F12 for the boot menu. Now you should see the key USB (if it is bootable!) choose USB and you should be able to install Linux (Ubuntu is great!)

    Here's a nice page that would provide the statement all step by step!
    http://www.intowindows.com/dual-boot-Windows-8-and-Ubuntu/

Maybe you are looking for

  • Re: How to check the warranty extension

    Toshiba offers a service where you can enter the product series, date of purchase and Correo electronico and see what warranty registration and warranty extensions, we recorded. Unfortunately I don't get no results for my laptop and when I try to reg

  • GarageBand Inhalt wird nicht loading?

    Hallo Ich das Programm GarageBand offne're opens sich ein another ein Fenster wo GarageBand content loading werden soll. Aber're passiert nichts. Wie soll ich oder den Inhalt bekommen kann ich damit change procedure? MIT thank wurde Sven Cotte

  • Satellite U840W-10 t starts when you open the lid

    Hello world. I recently bought a U840w-10 t. I can solve a problem.When I stopped completely win8, I enabled in the BIOS and in the configuration of toshiba software the option this computer do not START with the opening of the SCREEN. But even with

  • Battery clip and 2 GB of storage

    It's no big deal I guess and I'm sorry if it has been said before, but I have two minor issues with my new Clip. When it is plugged into my laptop and I look at properties 'internal memory', he said that the total capacity is 1.8 GB instead of 2. Als

  • How to make the footer at the bottom of the page stay no matter what screen size I'm on?

    Hello!Please take a look at this page.http://www.fabiotozzo.com/contact.htmlWhen you view it on an iMac 27 ", you will see the contact form and the blanks below. When you start to scroll downthe footer becomes visible. The problem is that when I view