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I am working on a computer that had XP home installed twice on the same partition, my father couldnt get online so reinstalled xp on the c drive to try and fix problem--only needed to reinstall his modem. &nbsp;Both installations are running fine as far as i can tell but i would like to uninstall/remove the second one. &nbsp;I would of course rather not format the drive and reinstall fresh copy but i do not want it to start having problems from uninstalling the second one or leaving it there and &nbsp;and just removing it's path from boot.ini. &nbsp;Any suggestions on which route to go? 
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I am working on a computer that had XP home installed twice on the same partition, my father couldnt get online so reinstalled xp on the c drive to try and fix problem--only needed to reinstall his modem.  Both installations are running fine as far as i can tell but i would like to uninstall/remove the second one.  I would of course rather not format the drive and reinstall fresh copy but i do not want it to start having problems from uninstalling the second one or leaving it there and  and just removing it's path from boot.ini.  Any suggestions on which route to go? 

XP home was installed twice in same partition, can 2nd OS be uninstalled safely?

Microsoft Windows XP is the sixth release of the NT series of operating systems, and was the first to be marketed in a variety of editions: XP Home and XP Professional, designed for business and power users. The advanced features in XP Professional are generally disabled in Home Edition, but are there and can be activated. There were two 64-bit editions, an embedded edition and a tablet edition.