Removing 1 OS and keeping another

justink · #1 05-08-2005, 08:34 PM

I am setting up a 2nd machine in my home office (2.5GHz Celeron) and it was a "server" operating 10 clients in a business environment about a year ago. It has 2 OS's loaded on it (XP Pro and 2000 Pro). At the startup in BIOS it asks me which to choose. I have been selecting XP Pro but there is a problem with the software, I think it's corrupt. It freezes all the time, and wont run the games I want to play. I have run Ad Aware, Spybot, and Virus scans, not to mention scan disk and defrag....with no avail. This was my computer from the time it was new, so I know where its been.

When I use 2000 Pro, it runs much smoother, no problems....so I want to utilize 2000 pro as my OS on this PC. How can I format the C drive to tell it to just remove the XP partition without removing everything? I don't have the OS software anymore, lost it in a move, so I can just delete it all and reboot the OS....surely there has to be a way to remove XP Pro? Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks

Ant · #2 05-08-2005, 11:56 PM

Formatting the C: Drive may well remove both operating operating systems. Do you know on which partition each OS is intalled?

Look here:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;888023

qfisheye · #3 05-09-2005, 11:29 AM

I think you're going to have a problem. When I had my sys set up for dual boot and win 98 messed up, i could format the 98 part , but this drive partition for all intents and purposes is in another part of the world. xp doesn't see it. A clean boot will bring it home. GOOD LUCK