I'm running Win XP Pro SP2 on a Pentium 4 3.0 GHz with 2GB RAM, 160GB HDD
Some weeks ago I had a problem of computer not booting, giving a message "could not find Operating system" or something like that (don't remember precisely). HDD was working fine (tested with Seagate disk tools for DOS) so thought MBR might be corrupt. Tried to use installation CD to repair/restore the MBR but instead it installed a completely new version of XP Pro alongside the old. I did that twice !!!
Then the original version of XP started working fine and so I edited Boot.ini to remove the no-longer-needed choice of the two new versions of XP Pro. Everything works fine except I now have three sets of "Windows" folders: "Windows", "Windows 0" and "Windows 1" and three sets of Documents and Settings, etc., etc., so I am wasting space with all these extra versions of the OS and worry about implications of all that clutter. How can I get rid of the two unneeded versions of XP without interrupting my good and trusted primary version and all its associated Documents and Settings ?