Double OS in one partition?

[minduka]

Hi guys

I have a real wicked problem. I installed win2k on top of winME and i found out that there is a WINDOWS and a WINNT folder in C: drive. What happened? Is there a way to remove it or move it into another partition? Thanks

[Siliconjunkie]

Are you dual booting? If not what OS are you booting into?

The WINDOWS dir is WinME, the WINNT dir is 2K

[minduka]

yes, i am dual booting, i can boot to ME and 2k

[Siliconjunkie]

Well, you are going to run into all kinds of future problems with the setup like it is. Primarily because of the other directories like program files, they will TRY to "share" it, but will just muck it all up.

Your best bet is to pick one, remove the other, and reinstall on another partition, unfortunately its going to be messy either way.

[minduka]

I want to keep win2000, how can i do it?

[Siliconjunkie]

Delete the Windows dir and edit c:\boot.ini to remove any mention of ME.

[Bill in SD, CA]

I'm assuming you want to dual-boot.

Well at this point the easiest and neatest way to go is to wipe your drive, put 2 partitions on the drive, install ME on first partition, and then install 2K on the second partition.

Bill

[Siliconjunkie]

Yeah, a complete reinstall would be the best, but so many people are afraid of that.

[minduka]

unfortunatelly, i am one of those. i think the best method will be to edit the boot.ini file.

but i can't find such file?

[minduka]

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