2000 upgrade

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Windows 2000 was installed as an upgrade to a system
running ME before the feasability of doing this was
checked. As a result some of the devices on the computer
are not available ( nic & cdr) and the monitor is reduced
to 16 color. How can I unistall 2000 and go back to the
original ME operating system? Any help on this will be
greatly appreciated.
 
The is no supported upgrade path from WinME to Windows 2000, which may be
the source of your problems.

There is no uninstall. To wipe the drive, some ways include; boot a win98/ME
startup disk, run fdisk and delete all partition information found (as long
as NTFS is primary). Or boot the Windows 2000 CD-Rom or setup disks and when
you get to the point, delete the existing NTFS and or other partitions
found, then abort the install. Or use a utility named delpart. Once removed
you can partition and format the drive as you wish.

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt/winnt-public/reskit/nt31/i386/reskit.exe
 
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