Remove my drive hard slave - a second version of Windows XP
Hello. I bought a blank main hard drive for my PC, with the intention to install XP on it. During the installation process, I ended up trying to install Windows XP on my secondary drive - he was not let me install XP on my new drive. However, the installation on my secondary disk failed. In the end, I managed to install XP on my new main drive by unplugging the secondary drive.
Now, everything works fine, including the secondary drive, but the second version of XP are still partially installed on my secondary disk. I want to delete safely, without deleting all of the other facilities/files on this drive. Probably just delete the WINDOWS directory on the second disc are always going to stay behind?
I tried to boot the PC using only my secondary drive, to delete the windows using the installation CD, but it will not load the Windows installation program, saying there is a problem with this drive (despite me setting the bios, the jumpers and cables properly boot).
So, does anyone know or any other method, I can completely get rid of this 2nd version of Windows on my second drive?
Thank you very much.
You will not be able to run all the programs that have been installed on the secondary drive, so we are only concerned about the data. The cleanest way to handle this would be to copy the data to an external USB drive, and then just format the secondary internal drive of your current installation of Windows. MS - MVP - Elephant Boy computers - don't panic!
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