i am trying to install windows XP to my comp. i formated my hard drive. but it said i need to run the installation thru windows. OK, i reinstalled windows 2000, then install XP.
BUT, the problem is, it keeps windows 2000 in the hardrive, and let me choose which OS when i startup my comp. how can i remove windows 2000 now?

 

When you turn on your computer, you need to go into your BIOS settings and make sure you are set to boot from the CD. Put the XP setup disk in and reboot the machine. Your computer should recognize the XP CD as bootable, and prompt you to setup windows from there.

Not sure which CD you have (Upgrade or Full), but that's how it works with the full CD.

 

If it's a full version you would usually just boot from your XP install CD or a boot disk to install XP sans 2000 on your freshly formatted drive.

I'd imagine you now have XP on a drive other than C.

Now that you have both OS's installed to be doubly safe you may as well make a set of boot disks for each if you haven't already. If there is a un-install option in 'Remove Programs' for 2000 (there is in some circumstances) you may be able to use that to remove 2000 otherwise if you want a single OS on your system you may need to format that partition (or both partitions) and then do a fresh XP install on C: drive after booting from bootdisks or CD.

Each to their own but I found 2000 in my experience to be far better. XP is a PITA to network with older Win versions and it performed so poorly on my 1.7 Ghz 500Mb RAM 'Designed for XP' laptop (not top of the heap but not exactly low-end either) that I removed it and replaced it with 2000. Now it performs like a 1.7 Ghz machine should.

XP also invoked long forgotten memories of 98 by crashing on me 2 - 3 times a week, something 2000 rarely does.

 

1) If your CD is for upgrades only, you're stuck with installing 2000 first, then XP over it. Go to C: and edit the boot.ini file. (You'll have to take off the read only attribute to change it.) There'll be entries there for 2000 and XP. Delete the one for 2000. Make a not of which system directory it uses, though - if it's different than the dir that XP uses, you can just delete. That won't totally get rid of 2000, since there'll still be pieces and parts of it in other directories, but that'll pretty much free up a reasonable amount of disk space. Just be sure you don't delete the XP system dir.

2) Like Muz said, a full version of the OS should allow you to simply install after booting off the CD. Don't try to run the setup off a boot floppy or something like that.

For what it's worth, my XP experience has been very good over the past year.

 

thanks for all the advices~
i'll try to do it all over again~

 

yea, your version is for upgrades only obviously or else you'd be able to install from DOS (or no OS). Make sure you install in the same directory name and you'll overwrite almost all of win2k.

 

Help? I would stay with Win. 2000

 

win 2000 is not a stable as win xp~
win xp is very reliable & stable, no crashes at all~

anyway, i am not any computer expert, as long as the comp doesen't crash then that's good for me~

 

are you talking about Windows 2000 Professional or Windows Millenium Edition? Windows 2000 Pro is no doubtly(is this a word?) more reliable and stable than XP. but still.. Mac OS 10.2 still owns them all