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by vijaydekhane

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How to uninstall or remove windows 2000 Professional or windows 2000 Advance Server from a computer which Boots from a choice of multiple OS ?

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by dmiles

This applies if you are using FAT 32
Insert Windows 98 startup disk in floppy drive and boot computer and at command prompt type SYS C:
You will be prompted that system is transferred
Removing Windows 2000 files
Start Windows Explorer
On the View menu,click Folder Options
On the View tab,click Show All Files,and click OK
In the Root folder C:WINDOWS,delete the following files
Boot.ini
Ntbootdd.sys
Ntdetect.com
NTLDR

by xanderoth

If you are using NTFS-
Boot to other O/S. Edit c:\boot.ini with notepad and remove the line referencing the Windows 2000 Pro or AS installation. Then using windows explorer set file view properties to view all file types. If your other O/S is either NT or 2000 I wouldn't suggest deleting the MBR files- try placing them in a temp directory- then proceed to delete the Windows 2000 O/S folders from Windows Explorer and reboot.

Or if all else fails... Fdisk, Format and Forget about it.

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