How do I remove Win 2000 Pro?

[dangerous123]

A used PC I bought had win 98 but was having issues so I loaded Win 2000 pro. It added it instead of updgraded. I do not want two OS's on the pc because I'd like to eventually upgrade to XP and it won't allow it with two OS's.

I cannot get a command window in Win 2000 pro, don't find the option to create a boot disk in 2000 pro and creating a bootdisk in 98 is asking for the original 98 cd which I don't have. I am logged in as admin.

Any ideas? I just want to remove Win 2000 Pro.

[DELTREE]

The BEST way is to have a program called Partition Magic. Because you have put W2k as fat32? and you can't run XP on that you need ntfs.So when you get XP, just put in the disk and see what happens. When you are ready to do it post first and we can get you on your way.
Take Care :wave:

[photolady]

WinXP will run as FAT32.......that said.....why you can't create a bootdisk without the cd is beyond me.....in win98, but you can get one from here: www.bootdisk.com

When you finally upgrade to XP you will want to do a clean install rather than an upgrade. And you can do a clean install with an XP upgrade disk, same as with a full xp cd. XP is the easiet O/S to install. It does it all for you, partition drives, format drives and installs, all you need to do is make sure your computer is set to boot from the cdrom drive, save and exit bios, with xp cd in drive, and continue to boot.......

[mike]

Hi ,
As per above, download a win98 boot disk from Bootdisk.com

To get rid of win2000, put a win98 boot disk in.
Reboot, and at the A:\> dos prompt , type in:
SYS C:

That will overwrite the multi-boot boot volume sector.
Remove floppy.
Reboot.

You can then delete all windows 2000 folders if 2000 was installed on the same partition.
And then delete Boot.ini, Bootsect.dos, ntdetect.com, ntldr from C: ( but only those files, do not delete win98 boot files)......

If 2000 was installed on its own partition, you can format the partition.

Cheers

[DELTREE]

I hope this may help?
There is a way to trick Windows 2000, XP or Windows Server 2003 into using FAT32 partitions bigger then 32GB. Here is how you do it:

1.

Get a Win98 boot disk.
2.

Boot from boot disk and run Fdisk.
3.

Partition the drive to what size you want up to 120GB.
4.

Reboot the computer off of the Win98 boot disk.
5.

Format the drive.
6.

Boot the computer off of the Windows 2000, XP or Windows Server 2003 CD.
7.

Proceed to install Windows.
8.

When Setup asks you what partition to install to choose the disk you just formatted it will give you several option dealing with NTFS. Don't make any changes and choose the last option, which is to install the OS to the current drive without making any changes. Setup will proceed to install normally and you will have Windows 2000, XP or Windows Server 2003 installed to a fully functional FAT32 Partition greater then 32GB.

As stated above, remember that Windows 2000, XP and Windows Server 2003 can use larger than 32GB partitions, but Microsoft intentionally limited the Fdisk portion in Windows in order to push people to use NTFS instead (which in my opinion is a smart move).

Take Care :wave: