Re: Reinstall Win2K Pro

ADDENDUM:

Strangely when I booted into Win2K, navigated to 'Disk Management' &
right-clicked C: in the right pane, the 'Format' option was enabled but
when I clicked 'Format', I was told that I can't format C: because it
contains system files.

After this, I logged into WinXP, navigated to 'Disk Management' &
right-clicked C: in the right pane. Now I find that the 'Format' option
is disabled!

How do I format C: then so that I can do a clean Win2K re-install?


r...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I already have Win2K Pro installed in the C:\ drive & WinXP Pro
installed in the D:\ drive. Both C: & D: are partitions of the same
hard disk.

I wanted a clean re-install of Win2K Pro & hence re-installed it but
after re-installing Win2K, the folders that existed prior to
re-installing still exist (though none of the programs work). Moreover
when I open Control Panel, open 'Display' & go to the 'Settings' tab, I
find only one 'Color Quality' in the drop-down menu which is 16 colors.
If my memory serves me right, while installing Win2K, the setup asks
for the motherboard CD-ROM but the setup didn't prompt me to insert the
motherboard CD-ROM in the CD-ROM drive this time. Is this OK?

To do a clean re-install, I was thinking of formatting the C:\ drive
completely & then re-installing Win2K again but will this approach be
safe? The reason I am asking this is because both NTDETECT.COM & NTLDR
exist in the C:\ drive & WinXP uses these 2 files to boot. So will it
be safe if I format C:\ completely & then re-install Win2K Pro?

I don't want WinXP Pro to get affected in anyway. Please suggest.

.

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