I have a dual boot system, Win98/Win2k. I want to uninstall Win2k but dont know how. I have nothing to loose on the partition but I figure that if I just format the partition I might still get a prompt during startup asking which OS I want to boot from. And I am thinking of installing WinMe into the old Win2k Partition after that, is it possible to have a dual boot (Win98/WinMe) configuration?

Presuming W2K is FAT32... Boot up using a '98 boot-disk, and at the a:>\ prompt, type: (not the ) and then press Enter. Remove boot-disk and reboot - straight into '98. From within '98 locate and delete the W2K folder; also its boot/start-up files (located in the C: system partition). Reboot and job done. Equally once you are successfully booting into '98 only, just reformat the W2K partition (as you are already condsidering). If W2K is NTFS (and in the Extended partition space) then you have to use the W2K set-up routine\create/delete partitions to lose the NTFS area; then reformat it to FAT32... Fdisk (DOS5x/6x/Win '9x) will only remove NTFS from a Primary partition; not from an Extended partition. ME and '98 are very close cousins, BUT they will NOT happily/peacefully co-exist - without the use of a boot-manager to keep them in check... (similarly '95/'98) PM4x/5x/6x has Boot-magic; http://www.xosl.org - is a 'freebie' source; http://www.webdev.net/orca/nojava/faq.htm - is another (re)source...

Sim, I just went through the same thing last week. I was dual booting Windows 2000 and Windows ME. I didn't install 2000 correctly and I had to delete it. Whatever you do, make sure that you look into it before you do it! It is not as easy as just deleting the partition! Windows 2000 not only installs files on the partition it was installed on, but it also installs files on your main partition. Here are the exact steps that I took to complete it: 1. Create a Boot disk by going to Control Panel -> Add/Remove programs -> Startup disk 2. Boot to Windows 98 [with win9x boot disk] 3. Go to the MS-DOS prompt 4. Navigate to the C:\Windows\Command directory 5. Type sys c: in MS-DOS prompt (restores io.sys file) 6. Remove boot.ini, bootsect.dos, ntldr (directory), pagefile.sys, hiberfil.sys, ntdetect.com and ntbootdd.sys from C:\. Some files may not be there. 7. Using the format command, format the Win2k Partition. E-mail me if you are unfamiliar with MS-DOS or need help. Also - after I uninstalled it, I had Network Card troubles. That's a total different story. E-mail me if you have that problem.