Fresh Install Failure: 2 OS's, 1 partition

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From: Loic (Loic_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/25/04 

Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 19:43:01 -0700

Hello,

I upgraded from Windows 2000 to XP by performing a new installation.
However, Windows 2000 was not removed, and now I have both operating systems
running on the same partition (my laptop has only one NTFS partition).

How can I now remove Windows 2000 from my computer??

Thanks a bunch!

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