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removing parallel win2k installn
Name: drwindy Date: April 22, 2005 at 05:13:05 Pacific OS: Win 2000 CPU/Ram: PII 256Mb
Comment:
Windows 2000 would not boot due to file corruption(s) and in my desperation to retrieve important files, I installed a parallel windows 2000 on C:\winnt2, rather than running a repair.
I have since fixed the corruption in the original win2k installation and would like to know how I can remove the parallel installation without causing any problems.
Name: marky81 Date: April 22, 2005 at 07:36:50 Pacific
Reply:
Me personally, I'd just delete the unwanted directory, and reboot. Then if there are any weird errors, just to a repair installation again. At least this time, you wont have a second installation of windows hanging around.
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Response Number 2
Name: drwindy Date: April 25, 2005 at 03:14:12 Pacific
Reply:
Marky81 - thanks for your speedy response to my post.
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Response Number 3
Name: wanderer Date: April 25, 2005 at 11:19:19 Pacific
Reply:
delete winnt2. remove the winnt2 entry from the boot.ini.
all done. shouldn't have to do a repair install since there is no mixing of the registry.
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