Re: How To Uninstall Win2K and other questions

To wipe the drive, some ways include; boot a win98/ME startup disk, run
fdisk and delete all partition information found (as long as NTFS is
primary). Or boot the Windows 2000 CD-Rom or setup disks and when you get to
the point, delete the existing NTFS and or other partitions found, then
abort the install. Or use a utility named delpart. Once removed you can boot
the Win98/ME CD-Rom or restore CD-Rom to start your install. Make sure you
have win9x device drivers available before hand.

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt/winnt-public/reskit/nt31/i386/reskit.exe

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

"xwdpuzzler" wrote:
| 1).I have a really old laptop that I want to install win 98 instead of
win2k
| because I have some older software that is not compatable with win2k.
Long
| story short, got impatient and installed the wrong operating system. I
| cannot install from command prompt, it would let me and it has been a very
| long time, I don't remember how to go to the DOS prompt. Can someone
please
| help me.
|
| 2) I kept getting a "suspend-to-disk" error prompt but the computer boots
| up, want is this file and what is it used for.
|
| 3) I was thinking of formating the hard drive again, but I went through
the
| command prompt, it prompt that all data would be lost (OK) but then it
| indicated that handlers in use with the current HD would be lost. Does
this
| mean the drive is not usable anymore. I back out as soon as saw that, I
have
| never manually formatted a HD only in the distant past, just floppies.
|
| Thanks for any input to my queries.
|
| D. Rowan
| Please don't send me to any other websites unless it helps.


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