Windows xp installation question

[Mohamed Shafiee]

Hi,

I'm having a hdd with 2 partitions. I had an installation of windows xp in
one partition, and it was working fine until it got infected with a torjan
virus. Now I have correctly installed windows in the other partition. I had
to do this because I don't have the driver cds with me. I extracted the
files from the original installation, and the new installation is working
fine. My question is, what do I have to do to get rid of the original
installation? Formatting that partition makes the computer unbootable (past
experience).

Very recently I learned about recovery consol which can be used from within
setup. Can you tell me how to use this to correct the boot problem? From the
windows xp help I have looked up the commands, and there are some command
"bootcfg" command which would correct this. But I am not sure how to use it.

Plus bootcfg /scan and bootcfg /add is not available. I mean "scan" and
"add" switch is not there when
I typed bootcfg /? .

Shafiee.

 

[george]

Hi,

I'm having a hdd with 2 partitions. I had an installation of windows xp in
one partition, and it was working fine until it got infected with a torjan
virus. Now I have correctly installed windows in the other partition. I
had
to do this because I don't have the driver cds with me. I extracted the
files from the original installation, and the new installation is working
fine. My question is, what do I have to do to get rid of the original
installation? Formatting that partition makes the computer unbootable
(past
experience).

Very recently I learned about recovery consol which can be used from
within
setup. Can you tell me how to use this to correct the boot problem? From
the
windows xp help I have looked up the commands, and there are some command
"bootcfg" command which would correct this. But I am not sure how to use
it.

Plus bootcfg /scan and bootcfg /add is not available. I mean "scan" and
"add" switch is not there when
I typed bootcfg /? .

Shafiee.

If you are 200% sure there is *NOTHING* on your first drive needed by your
second install, then you could simply delete the folders (such as WINDOWS,
Program Files, Documents and Settings, etc.) but leave the contents of the
root of C:\ intact, notably NTLDR, NTDETECT.COM and BOOT.INI should remain.
Possibly pagefile.sys and when present hibernate.sys. Those are hidden
system files so they might not be visible without changing Explorer Folder
Options.
You may need to edit BOOT.INI just to get rid of the reference to the old
installation.

hth

george