Is it safe to delete my old windows folder?

[Demile]

Hello.

Last night I reinstalled WinXP Pro on my laptop after windows explorer started freaking out and getting errors at startup and crashing my comp. It works fine now but now I have two installations of WinXP Pro on c:/. It asks me which one I want to load when it boots, as it should. I choose the working windows and everything works fine.

My old windows folder was called "WINDOWS" and when installing I named my new one "WINNEW" I have backed up all of my files so is it safe to delete the old "WINDOWS" folder?

While I am almost sure that it is I want to make sure.

Also, if I can delete the folder will it remove the bad XP Pro from the boot list when I boot or is there something else I have to do to remove that as well?

Thanks in advence.

-Demile

[Scarecrow Man]

Yes it is safe to delete the windows folder if it is no longer in use. But you will need to edit your boot.ini file to delete the bad xp from the list.

Automatically:

Delete the WINDOWS folder

start > run > msconfig

click the boot.ini tab

click "Check All Boot Paths"

if WINDOWS is not found, it is removed.

Set WINNEW as default.

Manually:

start > run > C:\boot.ini

delete the line associated with the bad windows, and set the default as the new one.

Example:

[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="Microsoft Windows XP Pro Edition" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNEW="Microsoft Windows XP Pro Edition" /fastdetect

Delete the following line:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Pro Edition" /fastdetect

and replace the following line:

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS

with the following line:

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNEW

Your final boot.ini file should look like:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNEW
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNEW="Microsoft Windows XP Pro Edition" /fastdetect

*Please note. Do not copy this exactly as your system may be different. Use it as a guideline. If you make an error your system will not boot.