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Uninstall Windows2000

Hi Experts,

I installed Windows98 and Windows2000 in the same PC. Now, I want to uninstall Windows2000. Can you tell me now to do that? Step by step :)

Thank you in advance.

Lee W, MVP

Basically, boot to 98 and make a boot floppy (or download one from www.bootdisk.com). Boot to the floppy and run the following command at the A:\> prompt:

C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\SYS C:

Then reboot.

Now delete the WINNT directory, c:\WINNT

Any reason you want to remove 2000... it's newer, better, still supported, based on NT technology which allows MUCH greater stability, better memory management, considerably more useful diagnostic info when an error occurs... I could go on...

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Windows 2000 on the different NTFS partition as Windows 95/98
1. Boot with Windows 2000 CD or Windows 2000 boot disks
2. 'If setup program asks you if you want to repair existing Windows 2000 installarion of fresh install new Windows 2000 select fresh install
3. When setup asks you to select partition, remove the Windows 2000 partition
4. create new FAT partition(s) instead
5. Exit setup program (F3) without installing
6. Boot to win 95/98 [with win9x boot disk]
7. Type sys c:
8. delete boot.ini, bootsect.dos, ntldr, ntdetect.com and ntbootdd.sys (if exists) from c:\
9. delete pagefile.sys (usually on c:)
10. delete hiberfil.sys (if exists)