ok so my computer crashed, I got a virus and i have to fix windows Dell is sending me some discs to restore windows but my computer was completely messed up so i got a copy of windows from my friend and installed it but when it asked me to install it i put it on my largest partition thinking it would just overwrite my non working windows but instead i think it just installed it side by side because when i start up windows it gives me 2 choices of Windows XP one being the new working windows (with out any drivers though) and the other being the old non working windows i need to get the new windows I installed off of my computer so i just have the non working windows so when Dell sends me the discs I can just fix it their way what id like to have happen is to get rid of the new windows i just installed fix the old one that was infected by a virus partition my harddrive so I can install a gaming version of XP on my computer as well as the fixed version so i can boot up in one or the other Thank you in advance
get partition magic and format just the partition the new windows you installed is on. PS, what are you talking about a "gaming" version of Windows? Really what your doing is a waste of time and hard drive space. Windows XP will play any game that is not Vista only, which is rare right now. You should be more worried about your RAM, processor, and graphics card and whether it can handle the game then what OS your running. Persoanally if i were you i would get a nice External drive, back up all your critial files and programs, wipe the internal drive clean and install a fresh copy of Windows and start from scratch. It takes longer but your PC will run better. Dell systems are not really know for being that great to start with and when they have problems they tend to be hard to fix. I had one myself and finally got tired of formating it about once a year and built a gaming machine.
yeah my dell has had several problems the "gaming" version of XP is just a stripped down version of XP that uses less RAM and cuts back on a lot of unnecessary things so it runs alot faster so thats why i wanted to get it going too but i got the discs from dell and the guy is going to call me tonight and ill just wipe everything and start clean after that ill look into getting the Other XP OS going
