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by icebillybob Feb 18, 2003 last reply May 20, 2003

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how to uninstal windows melinium from a dual
boot with windows 2k pro. on the same hard
drive that is partioned with ntfs and fat32
note:windows 2k pro. was installed on top
of windows meliniun (wasn't easy).

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by parvus1202 Feb 18, 2003

Win2K on top of WIN ME? Or Win2K on the other partition? WinME cannot be upgraded to Win2K, so it must be on the other drive. To remove WinME, reboot from Win2k, make sure you know which drive(c or d), if Win2K is on c drive open my computer/rt click d: drive/format. Make sure that no folders or program is open from d: drive or it won't format.

by parvus1202 Feb 19, 2003

When you reboot, you will see two OSes, the Win2k and WinME. Use your up/down button to choose Win2K. Then follow my instruction above.
my computer/right click c:(if WinME is here or d:)on the roll down menu you will see format, click it.

by icebillybob May 20, 2003

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by icebillybob Feb 18, 2003

windows 2k pro. is on the same drive,
but a different partion. where do I start

by jazzy5 Feb 19, 2003

A third option (I have not done it yet) is use Disk Administrator to make changes to logical drives when you have logical drives using both NTFS and the FAT file system. Fdisk is not supported for use in this configuration.

Note that if you run Fdisk a second time, you can successfully delete the logical drive using the FAT file system. Use Logical Disk Manager to make changes to logical drives when you have logical drives using both NTFS and the FAT file system. Fdisk is not supported for use in this configuration.

To open Disk Manager, perform the following steps:
Click Start, right-click My Computer, and then click Manage.
In the Computer Management MMC window, click Disk Management in the tree under Storage.
The Logical Disk Manager will display, showing all available disks and their partition information.
For more information in how to do this step by step go to:
http://search.microsoft.com/default.asp?qu=delete+dual+boot&boolean=ALL&nq=NEW&so=RECCNT&ig=01&ig=02&ig=03&ig=04&ig=05&ig=06&ig=07&ig=08&ig=09&ig=10&i=00&i=01&i=02&i=03&i=04&i=05&i=06&i=07&i=08&i=09&siteid=us

Just copy ( Ctrl + C) this address in your Internet Explorer address windows.

by icebillybob May 20, 2003

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by jazzy5 Feb 19, 2003

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.