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re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows2000 professional
Tuesday, December 30, 2003 at 1:56 am
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Posted by Fatboy210 (1 messages posted)

You cannot format from within windows. create a windows 98 boot disk and run fdisk to format the partition. If you have ntfs it will say unknown partition but it will still format.

On Tuesday, January 7, 2003 at 11:13 am, Dione J wrote:
>I have a question about How
>do I uninstall Windows?:

>
> Hi, I have two os on my hard drive Windows XP Professional and Windows 2000 Professional
>i would like to get rid of Windows 2000. I was trying to Formant the hard drive but
>it keeps saying: (Windows cannot format this drive quit and disk utilities or any
>program using this drive, make sure that no window is displaying the contents of
>the drive. Then try Formatting again). I did what it said, i try again and the same
>message pop up. Can any one help or give me other solution to my problem. Your help
>is hilghly appreciated. Thanks
>
>

Written in response to:
Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows2000 professional (Dione J: Tuesday, January 7, 2003 at 11:13 am)

Responses to this message:
Really no way to reformat a drive in Windows 2000? (David Johnson: Monday, August 2, 2004 at 10:45 pm)