Double boot

[mushroomsatsujin]

Recently I made my own computer but kept my old hard drive. It is compatible and works but some how I managed to install windows twice. Now I have two windows xp's to choose from and they go to the same thing. Also my old files are there but....not there. I have a 20gb Hard drive and it shows that I only have 6gb left. My old xp name has a file somewhere but it wont let me access it. I tried to format to erase everything but it didnt work. How can I get it back to normal. The files I have are backed up so erasing everything won't matter but would like to keep them on there if possible.

 

[charly]

go on system - drivemanager, delete the drive from there and reformat it.

MAKE SURE IT'S NOT YOUR BOOT DRIVE AND NO REQUIRED OS IS THERE INSTALLED 1

to check you could disable the drive in BIOS or unplug the drive and try if it boots

ciao

 

[Geoff]

I bet you have partitions on your drive, get Partition Magic and try combining the drives to get your space back.