Reinstall upgrade version after reformat?

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I have an older PC that had 3 separate Win 2000 installations. 2 of them are
not working. I just ran the XP Pro upgrade over the third. It hasn't yet been
activated. I had secind thoughts, and wish I had gotten rid of the old Win
2000 installations. Can I still do this from my upgrade CD? Any suggestions
on how best to do this? Or am I better off to leave things as they are? I
have no data files to lose, and there are few programs installed under XP.

If anyone has suggestions or advice, I'd really appreciate it. Have
successfully done a full install over XP Home, some years ago, but I've had
problems in the past trying to reformat Win 2000.
 
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"Peg777" wrote:

| I have an older PC that had 3 separate Win 2000 installations. 2 of them are
| not working. I just ran the XP Pro upgrade over the third. It hasn't yet been
| activated. I had secind thoughts, and wish I had gotten rid of the old Win
| 2000 installations. Can I still do this from my upgrade CD? Any suggestions
| on how best to do this? Or am I better off to leave things as they are? I
| have no data files to lose, and there are few programs installed under XP.
|
| If anyone has suggestions or advice, I'd really appreciate it. Have
| successfully done a full install over XP Home, some years ago, but I've had
| problems in the past trying to reformat Win 2000.
 
A xp installation has 30 days of use before it expires itself,you still can
put xp on a diffrent pc if you want.....
 
Thanks. I've read through this several times but am not clear on how to deal
with the existing partitions. There are 3, one for each OS installed. It's
not a huge hard drive and I don't want to dual boot, so I'd prefer no
partitions. How can I accomplish this? Is this a bad idea?

Thanks again,

Peggy
 
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