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re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows2000 professional
Wednesday, January 8, 2003 at 3:40 pm
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Posted by Dione J (2 messages posted)

How can i clean install XP again? Thanks a lot for your help.

On Tuesday, January 7, 2003 at 11:58 am, Steve B wrote:
>Need more info. If you only have one hard drive and only one partition and you have
>both OS's installed in the same partition, you made a mistake already.
>You would be running one of the OS's on that disk while you were trying to format
>it. A real bad idea. Why not just stop using Windows 2000. If you don't want it
>to appear in the boot list at startup, there are ways of doing that. If the default
>OS is XP, you could just edit the hidden file on the C disk called boot.ini. Just
>remove the line for Windows 2000. Once you do that, you could probably delete the
>WINNT directory, if you wanted to save some space. If they are in the same partition,
>you have a tangled mess. They are both using the same "Program Files" and "Documents
>and settings". To clean up everything you would have to do a clean install of XP.
> Xp setup will let you format everything and then you could install XP cleanly.
>Of course you would be starting over from square one.
>
>

Written in response to:: re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows2000 professional (Steve B: Tuesday, January 7, 2003 at 11:58 am)

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Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows2000 professional (Dione J: Tue, Jan 7, 2003, 11:13 am)

re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows2000 professional (Steve B: Tue, Jan 7, 2003, 11:58 am)

re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows2000 professional (Dione J: Wed, Jan 8, 2003, 3:40 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows2000 professional (Bob B: Tue, Jan 7, 2003, 11:59 am)

re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows2000 professional (Adam Bradley: Tue, Jan 7, 2003, 3:37 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows2000 professional (brownbra: Thu, Aug 7, 2003, 1:32 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows2000 professional (Michael D. Smith: Mon, Nov 10, 2003, 2:15 am)

re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows2000 professional (Patrick: Sun, Nov 13, 2005, 6:57 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows2000 professional (Fatboy210: Tue, Dec 30, 2003, 1:56 am)

Really no way to reformat a drive in Windows 2000? (David Johnson: Mon, Aug 2, 2004, 10:45 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows2000 professional (Spingk: Fri, Mar 31, 2006, 5:58 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows2000 professional (narender: Fri, Jun 30, 2006, 6:18 am)

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