Right-click on MY COMPUTER and select Manage.
After Computer Management opens, click on Disk Management.
In the right pane, right-click on your D: drive and select FORMAT.
After FORMATTING of your D: drive is finished, perform the
following:
Go to Start > Run and type: MSCONFIG , and hit enter.
Click on the BOOT.INI tab and then click on "Check All Boot Paths"
to delete incorrect boot paths.
If the above does not work for you, then:
Right-click MY COMPUTER and select:
Properties > Advanced > Startup and Recovery Settings > Edit
CAREFULLY edit your boot.ini file.
Your boot.ini file should then look similar to this:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect
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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Be Smart! Protect Your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.aspx
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| I have 2 versions of XP on my laptop, one on the C: drive and one on the D:
| drive (expired trial version). I want to remove the one on my D: drive. How
| do I do this?