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Remove winxppro, install win2000pro

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by koryz2006

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I removed winxppro and reinstalled win2000pro onto my pc. now when windows starts it gives me the 30 sec selection of OS's in the boot menu (before windows loads). the selection of win2000pro works but the winxpro selection doesn't. How Do I Completely Remove All Traces Of WinXpPro From My PC Including This Boot Menu, I Don't Want This Option Visable Nor Do I Want Anyone To Know That WinXpPro Was Ever Installed Onto This Machine (ABSOLUTLY NO TRACES OR EVIDENCE REMAINING) Anyone With A Step-By-Step Procedure.

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by fryboybrim

When you removed XP did you run fdisk to delete the partition and the master boot record? If you didn't then I would boot into dos and run fdisk to completely blow off the drive and reinstall WIN2K. To remove the boot option screen right click on my computer and open the startup/shutdown tab. Make sure the OS listed in the window is the one you want to boot and then set the time to 0.

by koryz2006

everything was deleted, i cured my problem today by deleting win2000pro, reloading the winxppro cd into one drive, loading the installation files, deleting the partition created ntfs, then w/o reloading the winxppro i rebooted to the installation sequence of win2000pro installation disk and continued on by deleting the partition again and formating under win2000, reinstalled the fresh new install of win2K and everything is fine, thank you anyways for your submission

by mksloan

I hade a problem like that with an IBM ThinkPad with XP and Win 2000. the good news is I fixed it, the bad news is I hade to over write the hard drive with ones and zeros a ?low level format?. Over time it started to get vary unstable so I hade todo the format to wipe all traces of any OS.

by koryz2006

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by curlergirl

To remove the line from your boot menu, you need to edit the boot.ini file. BE CAREFUL doing this and make a backup copy of the file before editing it!!!

1. In Win2K Pro, open the C: drive and look on the root of it for the boot.ini file. Copythis file to boot.old.
2. Open the boot.ini file in a text editor (i.e., Notepad).
3. You'll see a couple of lines of text under the heading [operating system], one of which will probably be something like this:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
4. Highlight and delete the line that refers to Windows XP Pro, leaving a single line that refers to Windows 2000 Professional. This should eliminate your startup menu entirely, unless you have some other OS also installed.

Other than that, I would be very leery of deleting other things from your hard drive, esp. if both XP Pro and Win2K Pro were installed to the same location (i.e., c:\WINNT). Hope this helps!

by curlergirl

OH - I forgot to say - you have to save the edited text file back to C:\ as boot.ini and reboot for this to take effect, of course!

by koryz2006

see my comment to answer 1, i did this before i received a response, thank you anyways for the reply but i already solved my problem.

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