Two Win 7 installed, how do I get rid of one of them?

Jerichoholic

My mate's laptop was acting up so we re-installed windows 7 on it to clear things up. And it did, only problem is that the boot screen has two Win 7's showing up and is asking which one to use, also because of this he is unable to save to the C: drive which has most space, and only to the which has very little.

Will I just reformat the whole thing, or is there a way to lose one and get back access to

Cheers.

cgarrad

start, msconfig(type it in), boot, delete the one you dont want.

Fysh

There are two possibilities here:
1) You've got 1 Windows 7 installation, but 2 bootloader entries, or
2) You've got 2 Windows 7 installations, and as a result when you're in one you can't write to the partition where the other is installed.

In case 1), follow cgarrad's instructions.

In case 2) do the following:

Boot into the first one on the list, run msconfig and go to the "boot" tab. This will tell you where each installation is located.

Assuming they're on different partitions, delete whichever installation you don't want by formatting that partition, then remove the relevant entry from the bootloader in msconfig. Bear in mind that you may need to do a startup repair from your installation disc after you format the partition you don't want.

Jerichoholic

I'll give it a shot tomorrow, deleting one from msconfig is what I was thinking.