Mayberry Machiavelli
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Sun Dec-12-04 11:50 AM
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How do I remove/uninstall one of multiple installations of Win2K Pro? |
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Long story how I came to have more than one on my hard drive. But now the "old" installation that I don't use anymore takes up hard drive space that I need.
How do I uninstall this installation without harming my currently used one?
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Deja Q
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Sun Dec-12-04 11:52 AM
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Find the old Windows 2000 directory and delete it.
Default directory is C:\WINNT.
But if you did a new install, you'd have to have entered a new directory name or tell it to overwrite the old one. If you overwrote the old one, it'd be in your best interests to not go about deleting anything. O8)
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Sun Dec-12-04 11:55 AM
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2. Yes, the old one is c:\winnt, I gave the current one a different name. |
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Sun Dec-12-04 12:02 PM
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I'd save all my important stuff, format the drive and install a fresh copy....or....partition the drive (even if the new partion were only 1 gig), Move important stuff to new partition,Format the 2000 drive and install fresh copy.
Quite frankly...anybody who keeps important stuff on the same partition as the "System" drive is asking for trouble.....
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Sun Dec-12-04 12:07 PM
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4. My win2K Pro installations are run off a different drive than my other |
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Sun Dec-12-04 12:20 PM
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5. Great...Shoot...I'd just Format the drive and get all the old crap |
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..out and start with a new installation. I don't think a fresh one takes up any more than about 1 gig...
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