Deleting an operating system off my computer

[parkourpan]

ok when i start up my computer i have two options to start the computer with windows 2000 or windows xp. i dont want to have to do that every time so i want to delete windows 2000 and keep windows xp but i dont know how. can someone please help me...thank you.

[GX1_Man]

The easiest way is to format the drive and only install XP. There are a lot of ways to screw it up by tinkering with things. Is there only one hard drive? Only one partition?

[parkourpan]

there is only one hard drive and i dont know how many partitions there are cause i dont know how to check. its a dell laptop also.

[patio]

Right click My Computer and select Manage....choose Disk Management and list everything it shows there.

[parkourpan]

yes there is only one partition. ut there is two operating systems and i dont have the xp cd to use. is there any other way?

[GX1_Man]

Everyone needs a real Windows CD sooner or later. Where did yours go?

[parkourpan]

my mom says she lost it and she is the one that did this to her computer. im just trying to fix it for her. if i right click the C drive and go to format. what exactly will that do. will it erase everything like 2000 and XP?

[Kip]

You cannot format the drive Windows is on while running Windows.

In Windows XP, you will get an error message that says

Windows cannot format this drive. Quit any disk utilities or other programs that are using this drive, and make sure that no window is displaying the contents of the drive. Then try formatting again.

[patio]

Everyone needs a real Windows CD sooner or later. Where did yours go?