Remove One Operating System from Dual Boot Windows

Windows has always revolutionized itself bringing more and more possibilities for people to get their work down, earlier we used to work in Windows 98 and then Windows XP was born that simply changed everything. People are still in love with the Windows XP and after the release of its successor version called Windows Vista people usually want to use both the operating system to get entertained by both the ends. So usually they just program and install two operating system together and can use any of them one by one. This adds ability to use any version but side by side adds some heavy burden on system and kills its performance.

Editing Boot.ini File for Removing Operating System

So now if you are in search of removing one operating system which was just added by any computer specialist than below steps will guide you through the whole process. The process is really simply and includes simple following instructions.

1. Press Start Button and choose Run you can also open Run command by pressing Windows Key + R
2. Now in Run dialog just type sysdm.cpl and press enter, now System Properties Dialog will open in front of you.
3. Navigate to Advanced Tab and press Setting under Startup and Recovery option.
4. Now under System Startup Area you will see Edit Button click on it, if you have only one operating system installed than you might not see any Edit Button.
5. Now when you will click on Edit Button a notepad file will open with text something like below, that’s the boot.ini file.

   “[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=”Windows XP Professional” /fastdetect
   multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)WINNT=”Windows 2000 Professional” /fastdetect”

6. Now above text will not be same as it depends on the system you have installed. So it will be similar but some name and lines will be changed.
7. Now suppose you wanna delete the Windows XP Professional from your system according to above example so you are just going to delete below line.

   multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS=”Windows XP Professional” /fastdetect
   

8. So you get it which ever system is installed just delete the line starting from multi and ending with fastdetect.
9. Now you just need to remove the remaining files that the operating system folder from the drive in which its installed so just navigate to the drive and delete the operating system folder to free up some space.
10. Now everything is done just restart your system and enjoy one simple operating system with faster loading and freed up space.