2000 upgrade

[don]

Windows 2000 was installed as an upgrade to a system
running ME before the feasability of doing this was
checked. As a result some of the devices on the computer
are not available ( nic & cdr) and the monitor is reduced
to 16 color. How can I unistall 2000 and go back to the
original ME operating system? Any help on this will be
greatly appreciated.

 

[Dave Patrick]

The is no supported upgrade path from WinME to Windows 2000, which may be
the source of your problems.

There is no uninstall. To wipe the drive, some ways include; boot a win98/ME
startup disk, run fdisk and delete all partition information found (as long
as NTFS is primary). Or boot the Windows 2000 CD-Rom or setup disks and when
you get to the point, delete the existing NTFS and or other partitions
found, then abort the install. Or use a utility named delpart. Once removed
you can partition and format the drive as you wish.

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt/winnt-public/reskit/nt31/i386/reskit.exe