removal of win 2000

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Outofideas

Hi. I just installed Windows 2000 on my machine that also
runs 98. After using it for a while, I've decided that 2000
isn't for me, but getting rid of it seems kind of tricky.
It was set up on a dual boot mode (i.e when it boots, you
select either 98 or 2000. I didn't partition the c:\ drive
so as far as I know, both systems are on the same partition.

If anyone could let me know how to get rid of 2000, I'd be
really, really grateful!

Thanks.
 
You can boot with your Win98 startup disk and issue the command
sys C:
this will rewrite the boot sector, then you can delete these files boot.ini,
ntldr, ntdetect.com, bootsect.dos, pagefile.sys and possibly ntbootdd.sys
from the root of the System partition C:\., then you can delete the Windows
2000 boot partition or possibly the \winnt directory (whichever the case)

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect


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| Hi. I just installed Windows 2000 on my machine that also
| runs 98. After using it for a while, I've decided that 2000
| isn't for me, but getting rid of it seems kind of tricky.
| It was set up on a dual boot mode (i.e when it boots, you
| select either 98 or 2000. I didn't partition the c:\ drive
| so as far as I know, both systems are on the same partition.
|
| If anyone could let me know how to get rid of 2000, I'd be
| really, really grateful!
|
| Thanks.
 
thanks very much, dave. followed your advice and everything
is back to normal, thankfully.

thanks again.
 
You're welcome.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect


:
| thanks very much, dave. followed your advice and everything
| is back to normal, thankfully.
|
| thanks again.
 
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