Re: how to remove W2K from WXP

So you have tried booting and hitting the F11 key? When you view in Disk
Management you do not see a FAT32 partition about 2.95GB?

"badgolferman" <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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AllenM, 3/29/2006, 2:10:34 PM, <OI731R2UGHA.2704@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Thanks for your reply fellow duffer. This particular machine has been
wiped completely clean. No partitions exist and it had Linux on there
for a time after the original XP Home was removed. I have comandeered
it and made it my desktop system where it is communicating with this
group as of right now. I just don't like superfluous software on my
machine and want that W2K gone. There is no original software or
manual available and Dell is certainly not going to help with what we
have done to this machine.



Well normally I do not post replies here in the XP group but I am
always willing to help out a "badgolfer" only because I can relate. I
have a DELL 8400 here at work and have done this so I'm sure you can
also. Your 8400 should have come with a recovery partition so that
you may restore it back to factory defaults. I believe during the
POST if you hit F11 this will get you there where they have a Ghost
image for you to restore to. Give it a try or call DELL Tech Support.
Better yet resort to your manual as it should have the restore info
there.

"badgolferman" <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I tried to install a fresh copy of WXP SP2 onto a Dell 8400 the
other day and had a new problem for me. It booted from the CD, but
after it said "Setup will now check your hardware (blah blah)" the
screen would go black and the computer would do nothing. I tried
several times to make it work but was unsuccessful. Finally I
tried a W2K installation disk and it came up perfectly fine with
that.

I decided to install W2K and then upgrade to WXP. After
installation of W2K I put the WXP disk in and ran Setup. This time
the error message was "Windows 2000 Professional cannot be upgraded
to Windows XP Professional" or something similar to that. I was
forced to install a fresh version of WXP on the hard drive.

Everything seems to be working fine, but I have to make a choice at
bootup for which OS to run. I also have a C:Windows and a C:Winnt
folder under root directory. I would like to remove the bootup
option and the Winnt folder but don't want to screw it up. What is
the proper method to remove all vestiges of W2K OS?



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