uninstalling an extra OS on laptop

[Rulke]

Greetings,

I'm at a friend's house visiting and doing a lot of tech work for their computer/laptops. At present, I have a laptop that used to belong to his dad that was given to his is son. I guess he tried to reformat or something, so he could start from scratch, but now he has 2 installations of win7 on it. when the laptop starts there is a bios like screen where i am given the choice to choose from win7 or win7. His son is 12 and i really don't want him to have to worry about this, how can i remove or uninstall just 1 of these?

[The Stig]

Remove it in msconfig and don't do anything else if I were you:

Start > Run > msconfig
hit enter

On the "boot tab" you can select/delete etc the OS. The current one would be mentioned saying "default OS current OS"
delete the bad one and call it a day.

I assume you know which one works (unless they both work).

[Ratatapa]

Can use this guide here

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...delete-os.html

[Rulke]

Sweet, thanks guys. I am taking the simple route atm mentioned by the Stig. As I do some other stuff on the laptop, if there seems to be an issue I will look into Ratatapa's suggestion. i appreciate the help

[The Stig]

If you need to reclaim space then Rata's guide should help for sure.

Otherwise I suggest to do nothing in case somehow it breaks. If a 12 year old doesn't know better then there's no need to go all in.

This is of course subject to yourself, if it's a real good friend and you don't mind playing tech support. I'm just personally lazy these days.

[Rulke]

Hah, well space won't be an issue for the kid. His dad mainly wants it for his son so he can play mine craft and sw:tor. He's also a very by the rules kid so he won't be attempting to modify or screw with much else on the laptop.