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by **osman** » Tue 17 Jun, 2003 5:10 am

hi there, I have installed 2 operating system in one partition. ( window 2000pro and XP pro) Now i would like to uninstall windows 2000. is there any possiblity? :?:

ciao

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by **Mandrake** » Tue 17 Jun, 2003 7:17 am

You have both installed on a single partition? I will give TWO answers.

The proper answer, format your partition, start from scratch - and do it properly, only one OS per partition, always start with Windows 9x/Me first, then any NT based OSs after.

The other answer: Say you have Win2k installed in C:\WINNT and WinXP installed in C:\WINDOWS on the same partition, boot into Windows XP, and TRASH the WINNT directory. Then edit your boot.ini file and remove the option to boot into Windows 2000 (a single text line, easy to find). You have to enable viewing hidden files to do this. Also take off read-only on the file temporarily.

Please note, that neither I - nor anyone else at the SillyDog 701 forum can be accountable for any data loss you suffer by trying the second option, it SHOULD work, but may not. Use this out of your own free will.

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by **osman** » Wed 18 Jun, 2003 7:17 am

thx man, i had these 2 mathods in mind but i was thinking that there might be any proper way of doing it. hmmm i guess i will try the 2nd mathod first if it get successful then will let u know.. otherwise formation options is always there

ciao

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by **Antony** » Wed 18 Jun, 2003 7:26 am

You really want to delete Windows 2000Pro and leave XP, but don't want to re-install XP?

Follow Mandrake's second method. Backup recommended.

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by **osman** » Fri 20 Jun, 2003 12:54 am

well ya i hv followed the 2nd mathod of mandrake last night and till now i have not faced any problem in XP. As far as back up is concern , ya i couldn't make a back up but i hope that XP is going to work fine for me.

anyway do u guys recommend any special setting to boost up XP or any other tips you would like to give me?

ciao

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by **Mandrake** » Fri 20 Jun, 2003 6:41 am

Well, I know nothing about your computer. You could check out http://www.winguides.com/tweak/, it has some great tweaks for Windows,

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by **osman** » Wed 25 Jun, 2003 12:37 am

well ppl here i m again.. just to tell u that. i had simply deleted winnt folder while i was in XP. So far it has been more than a week but nothing unusual happened. So we can somehow say that simply delete one OS while running the 2nd one.

Madrake, thx for the site u mention. I will look for good things outta it.

ciao

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2 operating system in one partition

2 operating system in one partition

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