Well, I just ended up making a new install of windows on the other HD, so now I got 2 of them to choose at startup, one that doesn't work. So how can I uninstall it and take back the 3 Gigs it owes me(I cant start it up at all)? If I can take away the OS choosing screen too that would be a plus.

I'm a little confused...do you mean Windows is on another partition? If that is the case, I would get a partition managing program and just delete the partition that one is on. Hope this helps, Slider Free laptops! http://www.notebooks4free.com/default.aspx?r=182006

Well, I have two physical drives, each with a version of XP on it. But one is sitting there dead, cannot be started up at all, taking up space. I would like to use this drive for data, most of which is on there curently, and I am not ready to spend a lot of time and money backing it up. Personally I am feeling like just deleting the windows directory and pretty much anything else I don't need, but I am unsure as to whether this will take away the dual boot screen. I would prefer it to just boot straight to the working version of XP. So I am holding off deleting it until I can be sure.

2 copies of XP installed; one copy on each physical drive; one copy works OK, t'other does'nt; you want to remove the duff version? In effect simply deleting the unwanted windows folder etc. is the way to go; more detailed approach below...; you need also to edit the boot.ini. If the working copy is on the Master (first phycial) drive then simply boot to it and set it as default OS to boot. Then reboot to ensure it does just that (no real need to do this but if in any doubt...). Once you are happy that the default OS to boot is OK simpy use Disk Admin tools to reformat the slaved drive (providing there is nothing you wish to retain on the slaved/second drive). However I note that you say there is data on the drive with the duff XP installation, so... If there is other data etc. on the slaved drive... back it up or transfer to Master drive and then reformat etc. Or use Explorer to locate/delete (only) the unwanted XP installatin from the slaved drive - and thus avoid the need to reformat. Then delete the reference to that deleted installation from the boot.ini. Reboot to ensure default version is OK (it should be...) and empty recycle-bin; defrag both drives to tidy up the scene afterwards. Job done. If working version is on slaved/second drive the again boot to it and set as default OS to boot. Then simpy use Explorer to locate/delete the version from the Master drive. Defrag etc. as above afterwards. If working version is on slaved/second drive do NOT reformat Master... If you were to reformat the Master then you would lose the XP boot/start-up files and thus no acess to any version (until you run a repair routine). To perhaps help clarify what is where etc.; how each version is indentified in the boot.ini: Your boot.ini will possibly resemble: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect (although if you are using XP-Pro the WINDOWS folder will probably be named WINNT)' Note the slight change in the ARC path/statement for each version... Master drive = rdisk(0); Slaved/second drive = rdisk(1). Both installations will be in the Primary (only?) partition on each drive and this will be shown as partition(1). Thus when you delete the unrequired entry from the boot.ini be sure you are addressing the correct line (rdisk(0) or rdisk(1)... In the sample boot.in above, the default OS to boot is on the Master drive. Once you have only the working version left installed, to bypass the logon screen etc.: (info below is courtesy of "Gollo" at the windrivers.com forum) Go to Start, Run and type in "control userpasswords2" and hit enter. Then click on the name of the user you want to login and uncheck the "User must enter password" box. It will ask you for the login of the said user (if there is none than leave it blank). Click OK and your done. You may need to turn off fast user switching for this to work but maybe this does it for you - I'm not sure. and also at: http://www.alegsa.com.ar/Visitas/i68/Bypass%20login.php tweakui is another way to achieve it too.