XP+2000+ME?

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Finished taking a computer from WIN98 to WIN XP Home, but now, during the
start up, it gives me the option of starting with WIN 2000, 2000
Professional, or Win XP. How can I go back through and delete/clear the hard
drive of all this unnecessary software? It's only got a 10 GB hard drive, and
3 of it is getting eaten up through I imagine different operating systems
(although I'm pretty sure that XP is 1.5 GB).

 

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"maxcavsm" <maxcavsm@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4D693139-0ED4-4420-91E0-DBD83841CBFA@microsoft.com...
> Finished taking a computer from WIN98 to WIN XP Home, but now, during the
> start up, it gives me the option of starting with WIN 2000, 2000
> Professional, or Win XP. How can I go back through and delete/clear the
> hard
> drive of all this unnecessary software? It's only got a 10 GB hard drive,
> and
> 3 of it is getting eaten up through I imagine different operating systems
> (although I'm pretty sure that XP is 1.5 GB).

Do you have Windows 2000 installed?

I cannot advise on how to remove Windows 2000, keeping XP, but you can
remove Windows 2000 from the list of start-up options by editing the hidden
read-only "boot.ini" file in the root of your C drive. If you change the
read-only attribute so you can edit the file (the format should be straight
forward when you open it with notepad), I think you will need to set it back
to read-only when you've done your edits (not totally sure, since its been a
while since I last did it). If you need advice on what to cut out then post
the contents of the file.

Hope this helps,

Brian.

www.cryer.co.uk/brian

 

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Brian,
I'll give that a try this evening. Thx for the assist and hope that it works.
Steve

"Brian Cryer" wrote:

> "maxcavsm" <maxcavsm@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4D693139-0ED4-4420-91E0-DBD83841CBFA@microsoft.com...
> > Finished taking a computer from WIN98 to WIN XP Home, but now, during the
> > start up, it gives me the option of starting with WIN 2000, 2000
> > Professional, or Win XP. How can I go back through and delete/clear the
> > hard
> > drive of all this unnecessary software? It's only got a 10 GB hard drive,
> > and
> > 3 of it is getting eaten up through I imagine different operating systems
> > (although I'm pretty sure that XP is 1.5 GB).
>
> Do you have Windows 2000 installed?
>
> I cannot advise on how to remove Windows 2000, keeping XP, but you can
> remove Windows 2000 from the list of start-up options by editing the hidden
> read-only "boot.ini" file in the root of your C drive. If you change the
> read-only attribute so you can edit the file (the format should be straight
> forward when you open it with notepad), I think you will need to set it back
> to read-only when you've done your edits (not totally sure, since its been a
> while since I last did it). If you need advice on what to cut out then post
> the contents of the file.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Brian.
>
> www.cryer.co.uk/brian
>
>
>