JosefTor 0 Posted December 24, 1999 Hi guys. I need help uninstalling my older builds of Windows 2000 on my machine. I am using dual boot. Is there anyway to accomplish this??? Thanks in advance. Sorry for posting to the wrong group but I think others might have the same question. -Joe Share this post Link to post
Tim Bazzinett 0 Posted December 24, 1999 Here is a way I had to do it when my Win95 crashed after a motherboard bios update was installed. I was dual booting win2000 with win95. This way is somewhat not the best way but it does work providing you have it installed on a FAT/FAT32 partition. Boot off a windows start up disk and ensure that that the floppy has the deltree command on it. Start by removing all attributes from the WINNT directory with the "attrib *.* -h-r-s-a /s" command. Then delete the directory using the deltree command. Then do the same process to the user settings directory. Then delete the pagefile.sys file. Then fdisk/mbr the active partition. Then sys the same partition. When you boot up again you should get to a c:> prompt and from there, install a windows based OS. In my case I reinstalled Win95 on a freshly formatted partition and I will be re-installing Win2000 onto the other partition once I have a little time. [This message has been edited by Tim Bazzinett (edited 24 December 1999).] Share this post Link to post
Seldzar 0 Posted December 24, 1999 You could do it that long complicated way or simply 1. boot into 9x and format partition with win2k 2. Reboot with floppy and format c: /mbr then do a sys c: 3. Delete the ntloader and any other files associated with it off your active boot partition or if you plan on installing a duel boot again don't bother with steps 2 & 3 [This message has been edited by Seldzar (edited 24 December 1999).] Share this post Link to post
