HELP!!!

[Gina]

I had windows 98 and installed windows 2000 professional.
It is just a test disk and it messed up a bunch of stuff.
How do I remove windows 2000 professional completely and
restore windows 98?

 

[Dave Patrick]

To wipe the drive some ways include; boot a win98 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
(The ftp server has been flakey the last few weeks. You may need to start in
the root and drill down to it)

 

[Gina]

-----Original Message-----
To wipe the drive some ways include; boot a win98 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
(The ftp server has been flakey the last few weeks. You may need to start in
the root and drill down to it)


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Regards,

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

I had windows 98 and installed windows 2000 professional.
It is just a test disk and it messed up a bunch of stuff.
How do I remove windows 2000 professional completely and
restore windows 98?

.
I tried to reinstall my win98 and it wont read it. I

tried the win2000 professional disk and it did not give me
the options you listed it just reinstalled it. I am not
sure what else I am able to do.