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Post by Jack Leivesley on Jul 27, 2004 15:18:30 GMT
I have recently installed windows xp onto my laptop, which has 2 small hard drives a 2gigabyte 'C' drive and a 7 gig 'E' drive. It all works fine but windows 2000 and all associated programmes are left on the 'C' drive filling it. Can I remove ALL of these programs without affecting xp?
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Post by NHH on Jul 27, 2004 17:06:58 GMT
Hi Jack
You should be able to just manually delete the associated programs from the 'Program Files' folder and if Windows XP is installed into it's own separate folder, then the Windows 2000 folder can be deleted with no problems.
Also as you've installed XP with 2000 resident you may want to remove the Windows 2000 entry in the 'BOOT.INI' file to prevent the multi-boot menu from showing.
The BOOT.INI is a hidden file in the root of the C: drive and can be edited in Notepad.
Another way to access BOOT.INI is to goto control panel, system (in classic view), Advanced, Settings (under 'Startup & Recovery), Edit, and delete the line that goes something like;
'multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\[appropriate win2k folder]="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional"'
Hope that helps....
Vin
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