hey folks..i just used the search function here and couldn't find the answer to my question so your help would be appreciated.
i was helping a friend out with his computer yesterday and ran into something new to me. he had picked up some really nasty spyware and also couldn't get on line all of a sudden. it was a gateway with pentium 4 that had xp home installed when he purchased it. i finally got rid of all the spyware but couldn't fix the issue with his not being able to get on line. i backed up all of his critical info and then started a new installation of xp from the disk that was provided with the purchase. it said that it would overwrite the existing os but didn't. i may have missed a prompt but for whatever reason when i was finished and started it for the first time i got a dual boot window. the new installation works perfectly but the old installation is still there. other than using up disk space i suppose it's not hurting anything but i'd like to know if there's a way to delete the old os without having to wipe the disk and start over.
thanks
i was helping a friend out with his computer yesterday and ran into something new to me. he had picked up some really nasty spyware and also couldn't get on line all of a sudden. it was a gateway with pentium 4 that had xp home installed when he purchased it. i finally got rid of all the spyware but couldn't fix the issue with his not being able to get on line. i backed up all of his critical info and then started a new installation of xp from the disk that was provided with the purchase. it said that it would overwrite the existing os but didn't. i may have missed a prompt but for whatever reason when i was finished and started it for the first time i got a dual boot window. the new installation works perfectly but the old installation is still there. other than using up disk space i suppose it's not hurting anything but i'd like to know if there's a way to delete the old os without having to wipe the disk and start over.
thanks