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Name: Thomas
Date: February 2, 2001 at 15:15:00 Pacific
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Hi, doe´s anyone know how to remove win2000, and return to win98 with out having to chooes os in the start?
I really need need this



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Name: nathan
Date: February 2, 2001 at 16:02:56 Pacific
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Expand on this please ? Do you have a dual boot or


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Name: lm-s
Date: February 2, 2001 at 16:20:21 Pacific
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Your post implies you have a dual-boot W2K/'98...?

Prsuming this so...

Boot from a '98 boot-disk;
type:

sys c:

at the a:>\ prompt, and then press Enter.

Remove boot-disk and you'll boot to '98 only.

Boot up to '98;
go to Explorer;
locate the W2K folder;
delete the W2K folder;
locate (in the C: system partition) the W2K boot/start-up files;
delete W2K boot/start-up files;
defrag the HD - to tidy up the drive...
Job done.

If you had W2K as NTFS then the " sys c: " routine above 'will' set the boot-loader to '98 only (you will only be able to boot to '98); but you will not be able to locate/delete the W2K NTFS area(s) from within '98. If this is your situation, the link below should cover it for you; if not post back and we'll give the 'fix'.

For future reference (and for others 'out there too') the following link covers most issues re' removing W2K from dual-boots etc...

http://www.budja.com/w2k/uninstall_w2k.html

(credit to Andrej Budj...)


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