Uninstall Win2K ?

[Dave]

I wanted to give Win2K a try. I installed it on my
computer. I used the FAT32 version, which enabled me to
retain WinMe also. Win2K created a partition on what
remained free space of my hard drive.

I tested out Win2K and could not get any drivers to work.
I am using an HP laptop. I could also not find the user
manager (I used in WinNT to assign rights to certain
users). I logged in as administrator, but Win2K still
would not allow me administrative rights.

Now I want to remove Win2K. Is it possible to uninstall
Win2K and return the unused portion of my hard drive to
WinMe? I cannot find an unistall program for Win2K on the
disk.

Thank you,

Dave.

 

[Guest]

There is no uninstall for any operating system. You have
to delete it through DOS or ME, just like any ordinary
files, when it is not running.

 

[Dave Patrick]

You can boot with your WinME startup disk and issue the command
sys C:
this will rewrite the boot sector, then you can delete these files boot.ini,
ntldr, ntdetect.com, bootsect.dos, pagefile.sys and possibly ntbootdd.sys
from the root of the System partition C:\., then you can delete the Windows
2000 boot partition or possibly the \winnt directory (whichever the case)

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:
|I wanted to give Win2K a try. I installed it on my
| computer. I used the FAT32 version, which enabled me to
| retain WinMe also. Win2K created a partition on what
| remained free space of my hard drive.
|
| I tested out Win2K and could not get any drivers to work.
| I am using an HP laptop. I could also not find the user
| manager (I used in WinNT to assign rights to certain
| users). I logged in as administrator, but Win2K still
| would not allow me administrative rights.
|
| Now I want to remove Win2K. Is it possible to uninstall
| Win2K and return the unused portion of my hard drive to
| WinMe? I cannot find an unistall program for Win2K on the
| disk.
|
| Thank you,
|
| Dave.

 

[Dave]

Thanks for the help. I still may install Win2K later as
NTFS, when I get all my programs so I can reinstall them
on Win2K. My wireless card and Zip drive (where I saved
most of my applications' installation programs) would not
work on NT.

My question now is how do I access User Manager to assign
rights to users (adminstrative and so on)? Is it the same
as WindowsNT. I cannot find it in Administrative Tools.
Maybe it is renamed as something else? On fact, when I
shut down and went back into Win2K, the entire
Administrative Tools folder was empty.

Thanks again,

Dave