How to remove an OS?
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For instance, I have Windows ME in C (first Installed) and Windows XP in D (later installed). Now i want to Remove : 1> Xp, keep ME. 2> ME, keep XP. How i do that because if i remove ME , my disk will not be bootable and then i dont know how to make XP boot. Help!!!!! Ask More - Learn More JohnJone
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For instance, I have Windows ME in C (first Installed) and Windows XP in D (later installed). Now i want to Remove : 1> Xp, keep ME. 2> ME, keep XP. How i do that because if i remove ME , my disk will not be bootable and then i dont know how to make XP boot. Help!!!!! Ask More - Learn More JohnJone
first you shouldn't dual boot windows, microsoft doesn't recomend that. second, figure out which OS you like the best. back up yor imprtant stuff shut you PC off turn it on, go into the BIOS, change the Boot priority to your CD drive, insert your OS choice, and do a fresh install wiping everything away. after your done, i noticed you asked about installing Linux, go here---> http://fedora.redhat.com/download/ and read everything
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For instance, I have Windows ME in C (first Installed) and Windows XP in D (later installed). Now i want to Remove : 1> Xp, keep ME. 2> ME, keep XP. How i do that because if i remove ME , my disk will not be bootable and then i dont know how to make XP boot. Help!!!!! Ask More - Learn More JohnJone
john_tran wrote: For instance, I have Windows ME in C (first Installed) and Windows XP in D (later installed). Now i want to Remove : 1> Xp, keep ME. If you format Winxp with FAT32 it mean that you can view XP partition with windows explorer in winme. Then just delete everything from drive
D:and go to the root driveC:and find the fileboot.ini. An example of the content of the boot.ini file is show below.[boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetectIn your computer you will find two something like this:[boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows ME" /fastdetectThen change the file to become:[boot loader] timeout=0 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows ME" /fastdetectThis mean your windows boot only windows Me. In case that your winxp format with NTFS. I recommend you to delete the partition of windows xp. To delete the partition just make a boot diskette in windows 98 and boot it from the A: drive then run FDISK command. Then delete the patition with labled: "Delete Non DOS partition" john_tran wrote: 2> ME, keep XP. I think in this case you might not possible to do that, whether windows xp install on driveD:but some file system of windows xp is stored in driveC:too. Good luck
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john_tran wrote: For instance, I have Windows ME in C (first Installed) and Windows XP in D (later installed). Now i want to Remove : 1> Xp, keep ME. If you format Winxp with FAT32 it mean that you can view XP partition with windows explorer in winme. Then just delete everything from drive
D:and go to the root driveC:and find the fileboot.ini. An example of the content of the boot.ini file is show below.[boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetectIn your computer you will find two something like this:[boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows ME" /fastdetectThen change the file to become:[boot loader] timeout=0 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows ME" /fastdetectThis mean your windows boot only windows Me. In case that your winxp format with NTFS. I recommend you to delete the partition of windows xp. To delete the partition just make a boot diskette in windows 98 and boot it from the A: drive then run FDISK command. Then delete the patition with labled: "Delete Non DOS partition" john_tran wrote: 2> ME, keep XP. I think in this case you might not possible to do that, whether windows xp install on driveD:but some file system of windows xp is stored in driveC:too. Good luck
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There isnt any way to remove ME and keep XP??? Anyway, Thanks alot Ask More - Learn More JohnJone
john_tran wrote:
There isnt any way to remove ME and keep XP???
Try this way: 1. Start your computer in windows xp. 2. Remove the folder
program fileandwindowsfolder from your windows me drive. Don't remove other file because it might contain system file to boot to windows xp. 3. Edit boot.ini file to remove the line that point to boot to windows me. Test it if it boot successfully then configure the time out to 0 in order to boot immediately to windows xp because will have only one operating system.