Upgrading from 2000 to XP Pro I wound up with both. How do I lose

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I wanted to "clear" my old hard drive and start fresh. I was previously
running XP Pro which I upgraded from XP Home. Not having my XP Home disk, I
installed Win 2000 first, and then I thought I correctly did the upgrade,
which I expected to leave me with a newly reformatted hard drive with XP Pro
on it. Instead I must have done something wrong because I seem to have both
2000 and XP installed on the PC. (When I boot, it asks me which OS I want to
use.) How can I get rid of the 2000 OS, leaving only XP Pro? (I don't know
very much about computers.)

Thank you.
 
Bob said:
I wanted to "clear" my old hard drive and start fresh. I was
previously running XP Pro which I upgraded from XP Home. Not having
my XP Home disk, I installed Win 2000 first,
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You didn't need to install anything first. The requirement to use an upgrade
version is to *own* a previous qualifying version's installation CD, not to
have it installed. When setup doesn't find a previous qualifying version
installed, it will prompt you to insert its CD as proof of ownership. Just
insert the previous version's CD, and follow the prompts. Everything
proceeds quite normally and quite legitimately.

and then I thought I
correctly did the upgrade, which I expected to leave me with a newly
reformatted hard drive with XP Pro on it. Instead I must have done
something wrong because I seem to have both 2000 and XP installed on
the PC. (When I boot, it asks me which OS I want to use.) How can I
get rid of the 2000 OS, leaving only XP Pro? (I don't know very much
about computers.)
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If you just did this, you shouldn't have much of anything on the drive other
thgan the two installations. It's proabably easiest just to start over and
do it correctly.

Just boot from the Windows XP CD (change the BIOS boot order if necessary to
accomplish this) and follow the prompts for a clean installation (delete the
existing partition by pressing "D" when prompted, then create a new one).

You can find detailed instructions here:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

or here http://windowsxp.mvps.org/XPClean.htm

or here http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/clean_install.htm
 
Hi bob if u have the xp pro. disc put it in the drive then see when boot
your computer up press (F2) it will take you in to the settings,then in the
bios look for boot priority or boot sequence then set it to
floppy,cd-rom,hard disk. Try that mate hope it works good luck
 
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