Removing windows

I have 2 windows installed in the same partition.. When i had one windows installed only there was some problem and it started to show me BSOD right after windows logo on boot and then comptuer would restart so i decided to install windows again on the same drive in which windows was already installed and i didnt want to lose my data so i didnt format it.. Now i have fixed both the windows i ran recovery console and ran chkdsk /r on the windows which was showing BSOD and now both are working fine.. I want to remove the 1 that i installed and keep the old version, How do i do that ?

There is an easy way to tell it to boot to one of them and ignore the other. Would you like to do that instead and not take the chance of damaging everything?

Yeah i can edit the boot.ini file but i also want to delete the files, i dont want unnecessary space to be occupied.

The only way I would attempt that is by sectors. Maybe gparted would work.


Someone in another forum just mentioned a program called Boot & Nuke.

Um...... how did you install 2 copies of windows on the same partition? That is kind of impossible.

No it isn't. It definitely isn't recommended but you can do it.

Really, how would you do that, there are certain system files that need to live in a certain spot, would they be shared between the two installs?

If I remember correctly, when you install windows and it sees an existing version, it asks you if you want to use the same location or not. You can say no and you'll have two installs.