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getting rid of win2000

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by akin

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I install Xp on win2000, instead of getting rid of it gives me dual booting, now i wannt to format my hard drive but i only have the boot disk for win98SE how can i format my system so that i can install winxp alone. I have ntfs partition.

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by bobho

If you want to wipe the hard drive completely boot from a DOS disk with fdisk on it and remove the partitions. Then boot from your xp installation cd and install as desired.

DrBob:>)

by thechas

1. Boot from the W98 startup disk.
Run fdisk, and delete the Primary partition.
Install XP by booting from the XP CD.

2. Boot from the XP CD, and choose manual installation.
Delete the primary partition, or format the C: drive.

3. Download the setup file, and create the XP startup floppy set.
Boot from the floppy, and exit to DOS when you have the option to format the drive.

4. Install the drive in another W2K / XP system, and format the drive.

Chas

by wcp

Boot from a CD-ROM. In the process of XP installation, you have an option to delete all the partitions, create one, and format it with NTFS or FAT32. Just follow the instructions.

by johnathanpeter

1) First boot from the win 98 boot disk.
Make sure that you have the necessary files copied on your diskette, unless you have a bootable CD like your Win XP CD and that your computer can start directly from a CD or that the you have created a bootable disk that has the appropriate drivers to read your CDROM drive during startup.

If you don't have one, you will need the following things:
a) your CD driver (if you don't have one, you can download the DOS CD ROM driver at: http://www.mitsumi.com/enduser/1_drivers.html)
b) himem.sys
c) fdisk.exe
d) mscdex.exe
e) sys.com

Then create a config.sys and autoexec.bat file
You can create this file using notepad and then save their names as autoexec.bat and config.sys.

Example of autoexec.bat using samsung driver
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a:\SAMSUNG\MSCDEX /D:SSCD000

Example of config.sys
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DEVICE=a:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=a:\SAMSUNG\SSCDROM.SYS /D:SSCD000 /v

2) If you started with a Bootable CD, you will be be prompted to format your drive. Select the drive you want to convert to NTFS or FAT32 and delete the partition. Press D to delete and L to remove the partition.
However if you are using the Diskette to bootup,once you see the black screen, type fdisk
and once instead the software configure and partition your system.
Have you have finished, restart the computer with the diskette again. Then type d:\ or e:\ (or other similar CD ROM) drive letter to accessyour CD Drive.
Type the word: setup
Windows 9x willl start and you can now reinstall the your fresh copy of windows.

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