Uninstal or Remove windows Xp

[Soliman]

I have 2 partitions on my hard disk the primary partision (c) has windows 2000 instlled and the other partition has Window Xp.

Now I want to remove the windows Xp and keep only windows 2000. How can I do it?

[RoSpider]

Use fdisk to format your secondary partition (the one with Windows XP). If you don't know how to use fdisk, you can use PowerQuest PartitionMagic which is very easy to use and does much more than format your drive (you can use it to merge your partitions together if you want only one partition after getting rid of Windows XP). Hope this helps.

Good Luck

[Soliman]

Thanks RoSpider



but If I use fdisk will that remove the entry for windows Xp in the menu that appears when you start the system that shows windows 2000 and Windows Xp.

[RoSpider]

Probably none of these programs will remove that entry. However if the entry is still there you can always edit the boot.ini file and remove it manually.

Good Luck

[Xanex]

I do believe that you can do this from within 2000 itself without the need for fdisk (see my post on fdisk).

If you wish to keep the harddrive in 2 partitions, then just format the partition and remove the boot entry in boot.ini.

The 2 OS's are seperate and don't communicate with each other so they wont complain if one is "missing"

And if you do wish to merge the partitions "diskpart.exe" or partition magic is your best bet, since if you are using windows2000 your filesystem is most likely in ntfs and therefore fdisk will not be able to merge the partitions

[Soliman]

Thanks RoSpider

I searched for Boot.ini in the hard disk it is not there. Can you please tell me where is it and how to edit it.

[RoSpider]

The boot.ini file should be located on your C:\ drive. The file is hidden so you should select "Show all files" from "Folder options" in order to see it. I'm guessing the file would look something like this in your case:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windo ws XP Professional" /fastdetect

Just set the timeout to 0 and remove the line in bold.

Good Luck

[Soliman]

the file boot.ini is not does not exit on my pc. there are some files that include the word boot but none has the information related to above mentionted inf.

never mind i will close this thread.

[Xanex]

You will NOT find boot.ini when searching for it.

You need to edit the boot.ini via the system properties.

Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Startup and recovery -> Edit

this is for XP but for 2000 the process should be similar i just cant remember its been years since i used 2k