I have recently installed Windows XP home edition onto my laptop and in doing so, accidentally installed the OS on the same partition that had been running my previous OS Windows 2000. It seems that in doing so, I no longer have the appropriate RAM to have both of these on my laptop. I have gone out and bought RAM for the laptop and installed it which is working out nicely. However, because I am updating my laptop, I now am going to be installing MS Office 07 and I dintt think I will have enough memory with these two OS running on the same partition. I want to deleteinstalll/remove both OS and start over from scratch in installing Windows XP as well as the rest of my software, and yes I do have the installation CD’s. After this long explanation, my questions would be How do I go about removing both these OS and then re-installing Windows XP leaving Windows 2000 completely off my laptop?
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1 Ben // Sep 11, 2009
You can’t have 2 OSes on the same partition. When you installed XP, it should have deleted Windows 2000 because they put the files in the same spot. If you want to uninstall everything, just run the XP install disk and tell it to do a clean install.
2 joe.attaboy // Sep 11, 2009
You only run one operating system at a time. You could have a hundred OSs in the same partition, and you could still only run one at a time. If you’re running XP, it has no idea that you have W2K there.
If you want to reinstall, just start the installation, format the partition and install XP. What you had their before won’t matter. You don’t need them both. Just install XP.
3 Brad // Sep 11, 2009
Put your windows XP disk in and in the part where you select a partition to install to, press the ‘d’ key (follow by hitting enter, then ‘L’ i believe) to remove all of the partitions. Then create a new partition on the big block of empty space and you would be good to go (However, you would lost everything.
You could also use the disk management utility to delete the linux partition and extend your windows XP partition.
Also, RAM and Hard Drive space are not the same thing ;). Ram is very fast temporary storage. Hard drive is permanent storage.
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