Removing Previous Installations of WIN2K Pro

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Brian LaRochelle

Howdy,

I'll get right to the point... for reasons I'd rather
not get into, I had installed (upgraded) from Win XP to
Win2K - then had to reinstall over that installation. So
I have an old copy of XP, and an old (dead) copy of Win2K
that needs to be removed. My question to all you experts
is, how do I remove the XP and dead copy of Win2K? I know
y'all can help me! Thanks!!!

BEL
 
Same or separate partitions? What OS is installed to the system partition?
What partition(s) are the OS's on you wish to remove?
 
Well,

All of the OS's are on the same partition. I'm pretty
sure Win2K Pro is on the system partition, as are the
other OS's that I wish to remove. I really don't like to
make things more complicated than they need to be, so I
created one large partition (57 Gb) and installed the
original OS there. The next two installs went on the same
partition. I hope this helps to determine the correct
course of action to remove the other OS's. Thanks!

BEL
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Same or separate partitions? What OS is installed to the system partition?
What partition(s) are the OS's on you wish to remove?

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

Brian LaRochelle said:
Howdy,

I'll get right to the point... for reasons I'd rather
not get into, I had installed (upgraded) from Win XP to
Win2K - then had to reinstall over that installation. So
I have an old copy of XP, and an old (dead) copy of Win2K
that needs to be removed. My question to all you experts
is, how do I remove the XP and dead copy of Win2K? I know
y'all can help me! Thanks!!!

BEL
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There wont be a clean break as the operating systems would share some files/
directories when installed to the same partition. Best to blow it all away
and start a new install.

By default Windows 2000 installs in the \winnt directory. 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 %windir% directories that your currently not using from drive. By
default Windows 2000 installs into the \winnt directory and this is the
%windir% Windows XP into the \windows directory. From a command prompt
echo %windir%
will reveal the one your using (possibly \winnt or \windows or \winnt2),
then you can delete the other ones not in use. To be sure you can rename it,
then later delete it.

Best to blow it a way and start a new install.

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000
Professional" /fastdetect
 
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