Hello, Can you please help me. I had windows 2000 installed in my laptop. I wanted to clean install winXP and get rid of win2000. I inserted the XP cd for installation. It game me two options 1.upgrade the win2000. 2.new install winXP. I chose the second. By doing this I realized now I have two operating systems running in the same hard disk in same partition. So I have dual boot. What is the best way to remove windows 2000 completely? thanks Panicing for decision about jobs and study is normal for some specially if you have family pressure.

panic_f_decision, "So I have dual boot", sure about that? Sounds a little like an assumption to me. More than one OS at a time on the same partition results in a catfight as they don't play well together. Kept on seperate partitions, they get along fine, but don't like one another. Those with true dual boot capability are presented with a screen asking which OS to use and then the proper partition is selected. Are you? HTH. Ed in Texas.

Hello Ed in Texas: When I boot my PC it comes up with two choices: 1: windwosnxp professional 2: windows 2000. I can boot to both the operating systems and use both of them. I defenately have not created a partition. when I go to control panel->administrative tools -> computer management and disk management. I see only one disk ( disk 0). It says 18.62 GB. This supposed to be a 20GB hard disk. Am I missing 2.48 GB and that is where Windows 2000 is sitting do u thinK? don't know?? When I check C drive there is c:/windows ( seems windows XP files) and c:/WINNT ( win 200 files). Would you call that a dual boot? thanks Panicing for decision about jobs and study is normal for some specially if you have family pressure.

backup you data, run killdisk ... http://www.killdisk.com/downloadfree.htm (or fdisk from a windows 98 boot disk and delete all partitions) ... and now install xp again. Today's subliminal thought is: 'Calm down ... it's only ones and zeros.' icq 10183575

Sounds like a parallel install, boot to the XP\Pro OS and try to delete the 2000 folder from the "C" drive. Now open the boot.ini file using these instructions. Go to start/Run and type "msconfig", Open "Boot.ini" , highlight the 2000 entry click on "check all boot paths" and remove the entry for the 2000 setup.

Boot to XP; set it as default OS to boot; reboot to verify it does just that... Then via XP Explorer, locate W2K installation (the folder \winnt) and delete that folder from the drive. Reboot to XP to ensure you are still able to... Presuming so (and you ought to be OK - unless you've doen "sumat odd...") edit out reference to W2K from the XP boot.ini; the line to remove will have a reference to winnt... Do NOT remove any references to \Windows... - this is the XP installation! Reboot - again to verify you've done it correctly. Presuming all is still OK... empty recycle-bin and defrag drive to tidy up the scene... Job done. The discrepancey between 20Gig and 18.62Gig is (usually) due to how the actual capacity of the drive is calculated...

Thanks Everyone. Panicing for decision about jobs and study is normal for some specially if you have family pressure.