installingXP from win2000pro

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i got a this pc from a mate of mine it was running
windows2000pro on it i got a copy of winXP home when i
installed winXP on my pc its sill running win2000pro as
well. So im running two windows systems can some one tell
me how to unstall win2000 but i have no win2000 cd as
running two windows progams is running my hard dive down

Can some one help
THANKS
 
Helo,

You can edit the boot.ini file to take out the menu option for the other OS.
289022 HOW TO: Edit the Boot.ini File in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=289022

You will remove the entry that reads:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000
Professional" /fastdetect


You can delete the folder that the unwanted install is located in. If
Windows 2000 Professional was installed in the default location the
directory will be c:\winnt.

Sincerely,
Jeff Wade [MS]

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| i got a this pc from a mate of mine it was running
| windows2000pro on it i got a copy of winXP home when i
| installed winXP on my pc its sill running win2000pro as
| well. So im running two windows systems can some one tell
| me how to unstall win2000 but i have no win2000 cd as
| running two windows progams is running my hard dive down
|
| Can some one help
| THANKS
|

Sincerely,

Jeffrey L. Wade
Microsoft Enterprise Platforms Support
 
So did it upgrade the Windows 2000 installation? Sounds like it did a clean
install of Windows XP to me. Where are the applications residing? If you
want to get rid of Windows 2000 you can delete the WINNT folder and change
the boot.ini to point to the XP install as default but I would highly
recommend backing up data before you do.
 
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