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Had a dual boot system on two physical disks. Hard drive w/Windows XP as the OS crashed and had to be removed. Remaining drive was 20GB with Win2000 Pro as the OS. Made a partition on the drive and installed XP. Everything works fine but the XP volume is a little slower than I would prefer. That aside, I prefer Windows 2000 (C:\) over XP (D:\) anyway. Now I want the uninstall XP and the partition. From what I can see all sys and config files are located on C:\. &nbsp; 1) Can I just format D:\ and delete the partition? &nbsp;2) What files do I have to make sure are available on C:\ so that the system will boot after removal of D:\? &nbsp;Comments, ideas and suggestions are needed. That you very much.
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Had a dual boot system on two physical disks. Hard drive w/Windows XP as the OS crashed and had to be removed. Remaining drive was 20GB with Win2000 Pro as the OS. Made a partition on the drive and installed XP. Everything works fine but the XP volume is a little slower than I would prefer. That aside, I prefer Windows 2000 (C:\) over XP (D:\) anyway. Now I want the uninstall XP and the partition. From what I can see all sys and config files are located on C:\.   1) Can I just format D:\ and delete the partition?  2) What files do I have to make sure are available on C:\ so that the system will boot after removal of D:\?  Comments, ideas and suggestions are needed. That you very much.

Uninstalling XP on a dual boot system

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