Uninstalling an OS on another OS

[MTB1074]

Hello,

I currently have a 'Dual boot' machine, which consists of:

>1TB (with Windows XP on + Documents)
>250GB (With Windows 7 on).

I wish to retain the documents on the 1TB HDD, with a view to uninstalling
the OS on Windows 7.

As there is so many Documents on my 1TB hdd, and with my 'documents' library on
the Win 7 hdd going to the 1TB HDD, I don't really want to be reformatting etc.

I have read that it IS possible to uninstall another OS on another os - but how?
I guess I go into the drive and delete ALL the windows XP releted fies?

Many thanks!

M.

PS😛lease exscuse the bold font..I am 'new' ish to the forum.

 

[kawininjazx]

No you have to format and reinstall.

 

[MTB1074]

I have read though that it is possible to delete thew Windows XP files....?

 

[popatim]

Yes, you can remove XP from the bootloader and then delete the XP windows folder.

 

[popatim]

NOTE - do not delete the 'Documents and Settings" folder on the XP system.
Just the windows folder. Or you can leave it as its only abut 3gb.

 

[gumbykid]

I'm not quite sure what you're asking (you originally said the documents were on the 1TB then said they are coming from Windows 7). The simple and manual way to do it is to just delete the Windows folder.

It won't be a clean uninstall (think of registries and such), but it will save space. You may have to remove the boot option manually, as it might show that Windows still exists but you will fail to boot into it.

 

[MTB1074]

Right....My folders are on the 1TB HDD, along with Windows XP. On my other HDD (with NO documents on) is Windows 7. I want to be able
to retain the documents on the 1TB HDD. Delete Windows XP + Programmes etc.

 

[gumbykid]

There are many ways you can do that. The simple way is to just manually delete everything except the Documents folder. This way the data is stored on the drive and you can still access it when you're in Windows 7. This could also be done by copying and pasting the Documents folder into your 250GB HDD, formatting the 1TB (which would be much cleaner than manually deleting things), then move the Documents back.

You could also compress the folder into a .rar file then email it to yourself or put it on a USB.

For having a 1TB drive you should have plenty of space with Windows XP, there's no need to remove it.