How to uninstall win2k?

[Luke]

Can someone please give me step by step instructions for deleting Win2k and the boot partition from my HD? I installed it ages ago, never use it and it is just taking up space. I'm not exactly a power user, but I can follow instructions.

I tried booting to Dos, going to the directory and using the deltree command, but I got some error message I can't recall. My knowledge of dos is fairly primitive, though.

If I just delete the files, will it still leave a chunk of my HD configured as NTFS?

Thanks,

Luke

 

[Flighttester]

My recomendation is to boot from a floppy install disk (if you are running windows) and format the drive. Anything else is probably and even bigger pain in the butt.

 

[slicksilver]

if I were you I would back up all my important stuff on a partition and then quick format my main partition.....

Raj
Just my opinion

 

[Hawk]

Heh, there's no easy way, even if your drives weren't NTFS. The way I do it is move all my files that I want to save to a FAT drive, put in the Win2k CD, let it run setup, and when it asks you where to install, tell it to format the ntfs drive to FAT32.

While it's formatting, take out the CD. When it's done formatting, it'll ask for the CD, just tell it to exit. Now use a boot disk and install Win98 or whatever on your empty drive.

 

[Luke]

Hawk,

That sounds like the least bothersome of the options so far since there is nothing in Win2k I want to keep and backing up and reinstalling everything on my C drive is not my first choice. At least if I can switch to FAT 32, ME should quit giving me error messages that it can't read parts of the drive.

I'll let you know how things are progressing. As I said, my knowledge is a little limited. If I had any money, I'd just pay somebody who knows what they are doing to handle it.

Thanks,

Luke