Windows XP Pro/Home Dual OS Issues

[reddem0n]

Alright here's the problem..

I have two different operating systems, one is Windows XP Professional Edition and the other one is Windows Home Edition. My windows professional edition is pretty messed up since it required a lot of drivers for my computer and unfortunately I don't have the drivers cd that came with my gateway computer....So I installed the Home Edition that came with my computer and manually downloaded all the drivers from the internet...

Now my issue is....
Whenever I boot it tells me to pick either home edition to boot in or professional edition.....Obviously I pick Home Edition all the time.....The main problem here is it looks like all the Installations I do are being installed in my second drive which has like 20 gigs....When it should be installing everything on my c:\ drive which is 50 gigs.....So I figured my Windows XP Professional might be the cause of this.....

How can I get rid of Windows XP Professional and get Windows Home Edition to recognize my c:\ drive to be my primary hard disk where everything needs to be installed too...

 

[John]

My windows professional edition is pretty messed up since it required a lot of drivers for my computer and unfortunately I don't have the drivers cd that came with my gateway computer....So I installed the Home Edition that came with my computer and manually downloaded all the drivers from the internet...

That doesn't make sense at all. The drivers for home/pro are identical.

How can I get rid of Windows XP Professional and get Windows Home Edition to recognize my c:\ drive to be my primary hard disk where everything needs to be installed too...

Format the XP Pro partition using disk management which is located in the administrative tools. Your XP Home installation sounds like it is on the d: partition, so unless you change the path during a program installation it will default to the d: (until you do a clean install, or hack the registry as described here).

 

[reddem0n]

If I format the XP Pro Partition wouldn't that mean it would delete my entire C:\ DRive with everything in it? And Yes My Windows Home Edition is Running from my D:\ Drive...

 

[MedicBob]

Yes, if you format the XP Pro drive everything is as good as gone. Can you access C: from XP Home? If so pull what you need off of it.

Personally I would start fresh, completely. XP Pro and XP Home use the same drivers, so I don't see what the underlying problem is.