Hi, ive read a bunch of posts, and i have to say this is one of the greatest forums ive been on. just real thorough information on behalf of all the responders...

i recently DL'd something that screwed up my OS. the computer wouldnt recognise it even being there.
but i didnt want to install OVER it, because i had a bunch of stuff in the My Documents folder that i didnt want to get erased.
so i installed to the other partition, and everythings fine. i was able to copy files from the old My Documents to the new My Documents.
however, my computer still recognises the old, diseased OS, and gives me the option of booting from it when i start up the thang.
is there a safe way to rid my computer of the old OS? would simply deleting it from the drive solve it? i have no problem erasing the partition it is on. my problem is it nagging me about which OS to start up.

and out of curiousity:
is it possible to reinstall over the OS, and retain all your files in My Computer w/o having to back them up? I recall Win98 doing something similar to that.

thanks again!