I have three installs of Win2K but just want one!:(!

[Lcarvone]

When I originally installed Win2K in my system I was running a Abit BP6 mobo. Upon switching to a T-Bird combination I ended up with a second install. Considering both installs are taking up precious HD space I intended to perform a "clean install" which I had originally thought would get rid of the first two and leave me with a single install. Now of course I have three version of Win2K

Can some one give me some guidance as how to remove the other two and not lose the applications etc currently on the drive?

I have considered just copying all needed files to my second PC temporarily and formatting the main drive, effectively starting from scratch then reloading the applications etc. but would like to avoid this if possible.

Thanks

 

[Shadow07]

The only way to "remove" the other installs of Win2k is to delete the folder were you installed them to. But I would like to know, if you have 3 installs, then only one of the installs has the applications, and the others are just the OS. Do you have the original installation media for all of your apps? If so, I would just backup your data (word docs, save game files, etc.) and do a complete format and reinstall.

 

[Lcarvone]

Yeah I have all of the disks and can/have copied most of the files as backups already. This is what I figured. Just was hoping there was going to be a less time consuming way out of it...

Thanks

 

[TomBilliodeaux]

If you had partitioned your hd and put your os on a seperate partition each time, you would not have this problem.
I recommend that you consider partitioning 2 - 2gig partitions for 2 w2k os installations. One is for backup that you may never need but will be precious if you do.

Use a third partition for all your applications/programs.
see my post on dual W2k installs.

That is if you have a 15 or 20G hdd.++