Windows Installations

[Click16]

Hey everyone. I want to know if I could access or start my computer with a different OS. I had Windows 7 installed, but I wanted XP as well. I installed XP to a partition of my main HDD. I just want to be able to choose to start Windows XP or Windows 7. So both OS's exist, but it automatically starts XP. Does anyone here have a fix to this issue? If no solutions exist, I will just transfer all of my Halo 2 stuff, downloads, music, and pictures to my main account. If I end up doing the second option, transferring my stuff, could I merge or increase the partition that I am currently using?

Thanks to all who can help. Also, this picture might be able to give you a better picture of what I am dealing with.

[Dragonfire]

modify your boot.ini file?

[OwnZ joO]

I think you're gonna need to make your win7 partition your boot partition, and then modify the Win7 loader to know where winXP is. Not positive on that, but I think it'll be something to that effect. If you can find a way to boot into windows 7 at least temporarily you can use the partition manager to give the win7 partition a name and then the files will be accessible on XP if they're not already.

[Click16]

Yes, I can access my Windows 7 files on Windows XP. I just want to be able to merge or increase my partition size on XP and copy my files that are needed. Anything extra would be deleted.

[OwnZ joO]

You might wanna look up gparted live cd. It's a live cd of the GNU partition manager, that would be able to delete the windows 7 partition and increase the size of your xp one(after you've moved the files you want to keep over yourself). There might be other free partition managers available, but I haven't looked because gparted works fine for me.

[Click16]

Okay, I found a fix. Penguin recommended that just install space-consuming applications to my other hdd. I can just delete the old OS at this point. So my downloads, modding stuff, and programs will be on disk C while the rest of my stuff (Small programs, some pics, music, etc.) will stay on my HDD that I am using.

The main issue is that I cannot delete the Windows folder. I was able to delete all unnecessary items (Program Data, Unused tags, the users folder, etc.) But I CANNOT delete my Program Files folder or the Windows folder. I tried using Unlocker, it helped a bit, but it still cannot delete everything. Any ideas?