dual boot?

[Deanna]

I was originally running Windows 2000 on my computer. I then installed Windows XP on the computer, hoping it would override Windows 2000. It didn't, so now when I start up, it gives me the option to either start Windows 2000 or Windows XP. I was wondering how I can delete Windows 2000 from my computer and run Windows XP only because having both systems on the computer takes up a lot of space. Any ideas?

[M1CH431]

When you go into My computer do you see two hard drives or only one? A little more info would be great.

[Deanna]

When you go into My computer do you see two hard drives or only one? A little more info would be great.

They share just one C drive.

[Nancy_O]

Sounds like you have two partitions on "c"  could you not format drive and put a clean install of windows xp on it.  all the info about formatting and such is on this great site so good luck got to go....

[M1CH431]

So you have both operating systems installed on the one drive? You might just want to, Back up all your important files, and format the hard drive and do a clean install.

[Deanna]

Thanks for all the help. I'll definitely do that.

[M1CH431]

If you need any help let us know.

[patio]

This should be fun...

[rockerest]

When I changed over from XP pro to Vista Ultimate I used the vista installer to create another partition on my HD where I stored all of my personal stuff.  Then I installed Vista over the XP partition and left the partitions there.  I now have an "OS" partition and a "Data" partition.  Works nicely.

You could also just move your data back onto the OS partition and then wipe the second partition.

But that was kind of meaningless.  Just a note if you don't have enough room to back up (I had nearly 60gb).

-rock