Re: Uninstall of W2k? Not simple for me!

From: George Hester (hesterloli_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/13/05 

Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 20:53:39 -0500

>From what I can tell you want to remove an install of Windows 2000 and preserve the files on it. Nope not gonna
happen. You can copy the files you want from that installation somewhere else then byte the bullet and reformat and
install. The fact that you have a dual-boot system is irrelevant other than you can use that system to get the files off the
other system you are going to waste. 

-- 
George Hester
_________________________________
"Slip Kid" <G-2@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:ifyOd.182273$w62.176245@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> This should be easy? Well, there are numerous solutions to my general 
> question – either they don’t completely address it or they don’t agree.
> 
> 
> I haven’t found ant=y of several articles that agree with the best ‘plan’.
> 
> Yes, Andre has most points covered? If he addressed my ‘problem’, I 
> missed it.
> 
> I have two installs of W2k.  Different partitions with the boot files 
> in a small Fat primary partition.
> 
> One install is completely corrupt  - It crashed after an 
> upgrade/migration to a new drive  -that went ok - My problem was when I 
> had to re-install SP4 and it blinked out - -never to return to it’s 
> normal state..  I’ve tried everything and the profiles as well as the 
> configuration are whacked.  No matter what fixes I’ve tried it reverts 
> back to it’s corrupt state.  Anyway, it’s the original install and is 
> full of junk.  It has to go.
> 
> So?  I find articles on:
> 
> How to uninstall a W2k stand alone   - simple? Wipe it all out from the 
> boot CD – Or if there is nothing of import on the partition?  Reformat.
> 
> Or
> 
> If it’s a dual boot with a non boot (NT based) loader scenario  – 
> pretty much the same thing  -except I’d still lose my boot files (on a 
> primary partition that serves both install of W2k.)  Yeah, I can 
> ‘repair’ the other W2k?  I’ve had mostly luck with repair  - I’d rather 
> avoid doing anything more than removing the reference to the other 
> install from the boot.ini.
> 
> So, I have yet to see how to:
> 
> 1. Remove W2k when it shares a partition with other apps I can’t give 
> up in a reformat.
> 2. Remove W2k and ‘not’ destroy the references to the other install of 
> the other W2k in the boot partition.
> 
> I know I can wipe out the various folders associated with the W2k 
> install?  And remove its reference from boot.ini? Yeah, that will free 
> up a load of space.
> 
> Something tells me that enough stuff is going to be left in the 
> registry that I may have problems if I install another OS in that 
> partition.  (My plan)
> 
> So, if I simply do the file delete?  Knowing much of the install will 
> not ‘go’ with the folder? I could use a registry cleaner and hope I get 
> all of the W2k references out and don’t remove the application 
> references that are used by the other install.
> 
> Am I missing something?
> 
> Is there a solution to remove a W2k install where there is another W2k 
> in the system (different partition) along with preserving the other 
> files in the same partition as the W2k that has to go (no, I don’t want 
> to reformat the partition).
> 
> No, I’m not worried about the ‘Program Files  -Documents and Settings. 
>   They’ll go and I’ve kept my installs to a minimum (directly to Program 
> Files).  I am concerned about the shared/common folders?  But that’s a 
> risk I’ll have to take.  They’ll go and I’ll see how much I lose in the 
> functionality of the apps.
> 
> Is deleting the W3k files, cleaning the registry and removing the 
> boot.ini reference my only solution given what I have to work with?
> 
> BTW?  Is there a simpler way to combine a repair of W2k that combines 
> SP4 in one single move?  Silly question.  I was doing fine until I had 
> to ‘update’ the migrated install to be SP4 compliant...
> 
> Trust me?  I don’t believe it is worth saving this install  - it is 
> going to leave.
> 
> Michael 
> 
> 
> -- 
> "Fear not those who argue but those who dodge."
> 
> (Marie Ebner von Eschenbach, Aphorisms, 1905)

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Dual Boot Instructions
    ... I ended up reinstalling Vista, ... The boot SECTOR is not the bootLOADER. ... finds the partition table for that HDD and sees that the first partition is ... violated, we no longer can simply install WinXP, install Vista and ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices)
  • Re: Vista/7 permissions for script?
    ... OEM Win7 yet. ... I assume the first boot environment is Windows PE, ... image's boot partition to a larger partition in a larger hard drive -- it ... After writing the install DVD I repartitioned ...
    (microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript)
  • Re: No boot and no administrator password!
    ... You'll need a new partition, ... file ownership and permissions supersede administrator rights. ... > I cannot do a clean install and lose all my data knowing> that there is an 'unconventional' way past this problem. ... Boot the system, start> tapping F8, when>>the menu appears, select "Last Known Good Configuration,"> press enter and>>see if that resolves it. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.accessibility)
  • Re: How to change Dual Boot to Single Boot?
    ... Be aware that Microsoft use the term boot partition for the partition where ... primary active partition (where the boot sector and files required to start ... If you want the partition gone and Windows ... To do a clean install, either boot the Windows 2000 install CD-Rom or setup ...
    (microsoft.public.win2000.general)
  • Windows on Mac - how to.
    ... No-nonsense instructions for those "in the know". ... A custom slipstreamed CD is required to install XP on a Mac. ... This procedure WILL WIPE YOUR iMAC DISK CLEAN. ... Partition the disk in two using the OSX CD: ...
    (uk.comp.sys.mac)