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Jun 12, 2011 Rating Dual Boot OS, disabling one Operating System by: Support Hello Charles, Unless you are short on storage why not use both OS's? What are the Operating Systems? Both XP? Both Vista? Or a mix of say Viata and Windows 7? The advantage of a Dual Boot System is that if you get say a bad virus then you could use the other Operating System to remove the virus from the effected system. Or do other OS repairs. Now why did they load a second OS on your computer? Did they tell you? To answer your question you can remove the second OS. Depending on what the Operating Systems are depends on how you will remove them... With two XP Operating Systems you would edit a file called the 'boot.ini' to remove the second partition as a bootable partiton. Then from the command line go to the c:\windows\system32 folder. Then type in: fixboot Then type in: fixmbr This will set the second partition as non-bootable. It is quite involved and at this time I haven't wrtitten procedure to do this job in layman's terms. If it is a Vista or Windows 7 install you could download a program callled Vista Boot Pro One of the options of this program is to set the boot OS and remove any other OS, how ever you will need to use Vista/Windows 7 to make a Emergency Repair CD first or it will not work. This page tells you how to make a computer a Dual Boot system Dual Boot for your computer You can find more about Dual Boot System in Chapter 6, page 245, of my Self Computer Repair Unleashed! Manual Hope this helps ..

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