Deleting Win2000 after Installing WinXP Pro

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I recently installed Win XP Pro on a laptop that already had Win2000. Now, I
want to delete Win2000 from the hard drive to release storage space. How do
I delete Win2000 without having to format the drive? Thanks.

 

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Hi,

Simply boot WinXP and delete the Win2000 system folders. You can edit
boot.ini to remove the load reference to Win2000 at boot (start/run
C:\boot.ini).

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"jimr" <jimr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I recently installed Win XP Pro on a laptop that already had Win2000. Now,
>I
> want to delete Win2000 from the hard drive to release storage space. How
> do
> I delete Win2000 without having to format the drive? Thanks.