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Start by checking your system specifications.

http://tinyurl.com/63zh

You may have insufficient resources for XP, or incompatible hardware.

Next, do you have the OEM, Retail, or Upgrade CD?
You may not be able to install XP from the OEM CDas an upgrade.

You may need to perform a 'clean' installation.
This means on a new, or freshly formatted hard drive.
Caution, formatting the drive removes all files and information.

Chas

A note from Microsoft states that you can not uninstall Windows XP. For more information, see Microsoft Knowledge base article: Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 303661 or paste this link: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;303661 in your Internet Explorer Address space.

See if one of these helps:

How to Manually Remove Windows XP and Restore Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows Millennium 314052

http://tinyurl.com/1bfq

or

How do I install Windows 2000 after I've installed XP?

http://tinyurl.com/640e

I you already know now, you can not upgrade to Windows 2000 from Windows ME. See Windows Knowledge base that states :(A new installation (or "clean install") provides a complete refresh of operating system files and settings, and is the way to install Windows 2000 where upgrades are not possible or desired. Note that the following versions of the Windows? operating system do not support upgrades to Windows 2000:

Windows 3.1
Windows NT? Server 3.51 with Citrix Software
Microsoft BackOffice? Small Business Server
Windows 2000 Beta 3
Windows Millennium Edition )
So your only course of action was to create a dual boot system. But now you want to delete the dual boot system. If you delete Windows ME by formating or using Fdisk tool to delete a logical drive using Fat (File Allocation Table) and restart Windows 2000 you will no longer see logical drives that use the NTFS system. In other words you cannot boot your computer. So you only have two choices. Keep Windows ME in your system and not use it or reformat your hard drive and start a clean install of Windows 2000. Of course this means to backup all your files and save it in a recordable CD-R/RW. Also if the Windows 2000 CD that you have is a upgrade version and not a full Windows 2000 and you do not have a version of Windows 98, 98SE, 95 you cannot upgrade with Windows ME. Not very good.

Start your computer, when you see the screen that says "press to enter setup" hit the del button, if on compaq it may be f10, dell may be f2 you get the idea. Once in the CMOS, depending on make of puter, find your way to the boot order. Change this setting to cdrom (or dvd/cd-rw) whichever the case may be. Exit the cmos, saving the settings, insert the win2k cd and when prompted to hit any key to boot from cd, do so.
It will start to load files and possibly let you know that there is anexisting version of windows present. What you want to do is reformat this drive and start fresh. If you have any data on this drive that you wish to keep, you better back it up to cd or tape first.
Good luck!

Mike

format the hard drive and then it will work

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