Removing an OS from a dual boot system

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John Johnston

I have a dual boot system, Win2K & WinME, and I would like
to remove the WinMe system and recover the disk space for
my Win2K partition. How do I remove the WinMe OS without
upsettig my computer as a whole?
 
Dave,

The WinMe is located on it's own partion on the HDD
(designated as C:) and was installed before Win2K.


John
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Same or separate partitions?

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]

John Johnston said:
I have a dual boot system, Win2K & WinME, and I would like
to remove the WinMe system and recover the disk space for
my Win2K partition. How do I remove the WinMe OS without
upsettig my computer as a whole?
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I dont appear to have boot.ini on my computer. I have
tried all types of searches; after show-all-files folder
option.
Where can I find it?
Please help... I have only partition on my computer and I
need to space. Thank you
Slayer
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First Control Panel|System|Advanced|Startup and Recovery, choose the correct
System Startup option as default, then you'll need to delete the options you
want removed from the boot.ini, it's a system, hidden file in the root of
the system partition. So you'll need to show-all-files, hidden, system in
Explorer. You should end up with something like this (below). The timeout
value is not functional when there is only one startup choice. Then you can
remove the \windows directory from the root of the system partition.


The line your going to remove from the boot.ini will be similar to
C:\="Microsoft Windows"

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000
Professional" /fastdetect


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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]

John Johnston said:
Dave,

The WinMe is located on it's own partion on the HDD
(designated as C:) and was installed before Win2K.


John
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Slayer wrote in
I dont appear to have boot.ini on my computer. I have
tried all types of searches; after show-all-files folder
option.
Where can I find it?
Please help... I have only partition on my computer and I
need to space. Thank you
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With just one partition it would be c:\boot.ini
Go to Control Panel, Folder Options, View
[x] show hidden files
[ ] hide protected operating system files

You might want to put one or both back if others also use the system.
 
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