Thank you Carl. I wasn't aware of the set systemroot command - which
did exactly what was required. Sorry my ignorance frustrated you.
I've done the backup, and will now try to delete windows2.
Al
Carl Houseman wrote:
I've answered your question 2 times already. I will try one last time.
The issue of PARTITION is NOT in question. Forget it. It is not part of
this discussion. I know that both are on the same partition.
Do the following:
1. Boot into Windows - the one you want to keep.
2. Open a CMD prompt, type "SET SYSTEMROOT" and press Enter.
3. You will see one of the following. Choose:
(a) SystemRoot=C:\WINDOWS
or
(b) Systemroot=C:\WINDOWS2
4. Now, look at boot.ini. You will two lines similar to this (but not
necessarily in this order):
[operating systems]
(a) multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional"
(b) multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS2="Windows XP Professional"
Quiz question - what makes those two lines different?
5. If in step 3 you chose (b), then delete the line most similar to (a).
If in step 3 you chose (a), then delete the line most similar to (b).
So do you now understand how the folder names are given in boot.ini?
And you know what folder name you want to keep.
The one that remains is the one to delete.
Carl
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