Hi All

Hope to get some help! I installed a copy of Windows 2000 as an upgrade to Windows 98, it wasn't working very well, so I installed it again as a fresh copy. I thought that would ELIMINATE the first copy, but it didn't.

So now when I start my machine, it says I have two copies of Windows 2000. I want to delet the one I'm not using. I was told by a techie friend to go to the Directory file in DOS and delete one copy. I've tried and I can't get to the directory file.

When I run command, I get DOS, but it says C:\DOCUME~1\HYRDEL0>, not C:\.

Can anyone help?



Thanks,

Sue MTo get into a directory, USE the cd command: CD \

Do you have a lot of stuff on your disk that you need to keep? If not it may be easier to format the disk and reinstall WIN2000 from scratch. As I recall Win2000 asks if you want to reformat and what file system to use.

Let us know. Hi,

Thanks for responding. I tried that. When I tried to re-format, I got a message saying system is in use cannot format at this time, both in DOS and in Windows.

Any SUGGESTIONS?

Thanks

Sue M.
You can't format a disk that is using windows. as someone recently said, "It's like asking windows to cut it's own throat". Or something like that.
W2k is bootable so stick it in your cdrom, set your bios to boot to the cdrom and you can format as part of the fresh install.
Other than that, to get from C:\DOCUME~1\HYRDEL0> to C:\ you should learn some DOS basic commands.Info link:>http://labmice.techtarget.com/windows2000/diskmgmt/default.htm