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Switching Which Copy of XP boots

Name: JP
Date: July 2, 2003 at 20:28:06 Pacific
OS: XP
CPU/Ram: xp1700+,256mb

Comment:

I had a dual boot, win98/xp, and wnated to remove the 98 part. I screwed up and deleted the whole c: drive, not just the windows directory (the only directory there, anyway). So then, of course, nothing would boot, so I reinstalled xp, however, i did do in a diferently named file, to preserve my old xp install. How do I tell the computer to boot to the old copy of xp, and how do I remove the new one? Or, can it be done?

Name: eddie
Date: July 3, 2003 at 01:48:56 Pacific

Reply:

Right click My Computer. Left click ,Advanced,Properties,Settings(Startup and recovery box),Edit. You will now see your Bootup sequence. Read carefully and delete whichever line you don't want. BE CAREFUL!!!!

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Name: JP
Date: July 4, 2003 at 09:33:27 Pacific

Reply:

Thanks - I did it, and now the proper copy loads. Should I simply delete the file called windows2, which contains the second copy of windows?

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