Windows 2000 pro installation,

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While installing win2000pro, clean install, I accidentally
installed it twice. Now I have very little space left on
my hard drive.
How can I uninstall one copy of the operating system?

 

[Daniel Chang [MSFT]]

You will not be able to do a "clean" uninstall, but if you've installed it
on the same partition, the best to do will be to delete one instance of your
OS and modify your BOOT.INI file to remove the extra instance.

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: While installing win2000pro, clean install, I accidentally
: installed it twice. Now I have very little space left on
: my hard drive.
: How can I uninstall one copy of the operating system?

 

[Dave Patrick]

As Daniel said it won't be 'clean', but by default Windows 2000 installs in
the \winnt directory. First Control Panel|System|Advanced|Startup and
Recovery, choose the correct System Startup option as default, then you'll
need to delete the options you want removed from the boot.ini, it's a
system, hidden file in the root of the system partition. So you'll need to
show-all-files, hidden, system in Explorer. You should end up with something
like this (below). The timeout
value is not functional when there is only one startup choice. Then you can
remove the %windir% directory that your currently not using from drive. By
default Windows 2000 installs into the \winnt directory and this is the
%windir% From a command prompt
echo %windir%
will reveal the one your using (possibly \winnt2), then you can delete the
other one not in use. To be sure you can rename it, then later delete it.

Best to blow it away and start a new install.

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000
Professional" /fastdetect