Reinstall upgrade version after reformat?

[Guest]

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.

 

[Guest]

A xp installation has 30 days of use before it expires itself,you still can
put xp on a diffrent pc if you want.....

 

[Guest]

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