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I just installed Windows XP Home on my ancient Compaq Presario Laptop. It installed in a dual-boot configuration with Windows 2000 Professional which was already present. I am running out of disk space and would like to uninstall Windows 2000 and recover the disk space to be usable by XP.
- Please tell me how to uninstall windows 2000 without deleting windows ...
If Windows XP is installed in a different partition, I would...
- Please tell me how to uninstall windows 2000 without deleting windows ...
13 wrz 2012 · If Windows XP is installed in a different partition, I would suggest you to backup all the required data from the partition where Windows 2000 is installed and format it. Formatting the partition will erase the operating system from the computer.
4 wrz 2000 · Delete the %SystemRoot%$NtServicePackUninstall$ folder (because this whole folder is compressed, it will be blue if you opted to show encrypted files in a different color). Next, you need to delete the Add/Remove Programs entry.
13 lis 2024 · Does anyone know how to uninstall win 2000 i.e formatting the harddisc drive and installing win 98 again? If you don't care about the data, just boot to the W2k disk and do a repair installation. When you get done with the part where you delete and/or reformat the partition, just exit the setup program or turn the computer off.
While several questions have already been answered about removing an OS from a dual-booting machine, most refer to Windows 7 vs. Linux/Vista/XP. I have Windows 2000 installed on my older hard drive (Drive C). Later on I bought a new hard drive and installed XP's under Windows 2000 environment.
12 kwi 2004 · i was wondering how i would uninstall windows 2000 professional & clean the hard drive (reformat) as I am trying to install WIN XP professional..... thanks!
24 lis 2000 · Edit the boot.ini to remove the option to boot to 2000. If you use seperate partitions for the 2 installs, you will still be using the 2000 boot loader unless you change your system partition to the NT4.0 partition. U can do this with the 2000 install disks, with the repair console.