Removing Windows 2K Pro. after installing Windows XP Pro.

[Guest]

Hey All,

I recently installed Windows XP Pro. on my system but I already had Windows
2K Pro. so now when I boot up the system asks which version of Windows would
I like to use.

I would like to know how to safely remove Windows 2K Pro from my system so
that I only have Windows XP Pro.

Thank you in advance for any help


Peace

 

[justamailman]

If you do not have anything important in there, I would recommand that you
reformat your Hard Drive and reinstall WIN XP PRO alone. But remember you
than are loosing all your extra softwares installed and will have to
reinstall them as well as redo the Window updates

 

[Guest]

No help here my friend; although I do back-ups now and then, I've got some
software installed for which I no longer have the CD's for so I'll need
another approach

Peace

 

[justamailman]

I do not of any other solution for your case unfortunately. May be some more
expert could come in for you hopefully. Than I would learn too.

 

[John John]

Did you upgrade Windows 2000 to Windows XP or did you clean install
Windows XP on a different partition?

John

 

[Guest]

A clean Install, I have the option of signing on to either w2k or wxp.

Peace

 

[John John]

So then I guess that Windows 2000 must be on drive "C" and that Windows
XP would be on another drive. Right?

Before you start you should make a boot disk, in case you muck things up
a bit. It takes about 2 minutes to make and test a startup disk. The
alternative to the disk is to use the more cumbersome Recovery Console
if thing go amuck. See here: http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/ntboot/ Make
the disk and test it, you have to change the boot order to diskette
first in the BIOS to test the boot disk. Now that you know that the
diskette works you can delete files with the assurance that you will be
able to boot the pc and easily fix thing if you remove necessary boot files.

To remove Windows 2000 (assuming it's on C boot to the Windows XP
installation. If you don't want to keep any of the files on the Windows
2000 partition you can delete all the files on C: EXCEPT the following:

NTDETECT.COM
ntldr
boot.ini

In addition to these the following files may or may not be present, DO
NOT delete them if they are present:

NTBOOTDD.SYS
arcldr.exe
arcsetup.exe

You will NEVER be able to delete these files. You will never be able to
remove the Windows 2000 partition unless you reinstall Windows XP. You
will never be able to move the Windows XP installation from it's
location unless you reinstall it. You will never be able to change the
drive letter for the "C:" or the Windows XP partitions. You can use the
Windows 2000 partition to store files but you CANNOT move the files
mentioned above from their location on the root folder (C:\)

That's it you're done. If Windows 2000 is not on "C" then post again.
Also, if you installed stuff on "C" while using XP, well you know what
I'm getting at there...

John