I've two operating system in my pc, i want 2 remove one of them. dont know how to do. help me....?

Question

i've window xp & win 2000 in pc. now i want 2 remove win 2000 frm my pc. plz tell me how to do it. so that after removing win 2000 ,my pc dont show two operating system during start up of pc..

plzzz help me

Answer 1

First go to Windows XP

Right click the Windows folder that you want to remove, and then click "Delete".

Click "Yes" to confirm the deletion of the folder.

Click Start, right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.

On the Advanced tab, under Startup and Recovery, click Settings. The "Startup and Recovery" dialog box appears.

Under System startup, click Edit to modify the Boot.ini file.

The Boot.ini file opens in Notepad and looks similar to the following(Maybe it's not the same):

[boot loader]

timeout=30

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partiti...

[operating systems]

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WI... Windows XP Professional"

/fastdetect

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WI... Windows 2000"

/fastdetect

On the File menu in Notepad, click Save As, and then save a backup copy of the Boot.ini file that is named Boot.old.

On the File menu, click Exit to close the backup copy of the Boot.ini file.

In the Startup and Recovery dialog box, under System startup, click Edit to reopen the Boot.ini file.

In the [boot loader] section of the Boot.ini file, identify and then delete the line of text for the Windows operating system that you want to remove. For example, if the Windows folder that you removed in earlier was for the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system, remove the following line of text from the Boot.ini file:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WI... Windows 2000"

/fastdetect

On the "File" menu, click "Save" to save your changes to the Boot.ini file.

On the "File" menu, click "Exit" to close the Boot.ini file.

Click "Ok" to close the "Startup and Recovery" dialog box.

Restart your computer.

Answer 2

Well, you can remove the operating system or you can sweep it under the rug and forget about it.

The removing would require formatting your hard drive to physically remove any trace of windows 2000.

You can sweep it under the rug by removing it from the boot.ini file.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289022