i don't email- it goes against the spirit of a forum.
Be careful when you do this, or you could destroy the partition you want to save. Right click on my computer and go to manage. Now click on disk management. In the right pane, you should see an image of your hard drive with it's partitions. Right click on the one you want to delete (make sure you are *sure* it's the right one), and delete it.
Now, right click on my computer again, and this time click properties. Click on the advanced tab, and then click on startup and recovery settings (the bottom of the 3 buttons). Now, click to edit the startup options manually. Because you only have one partition on the C drive now, you need to tell the loader to load from partition 1. Therefore, change the default os location to "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)" and under the [operating systems] section, delete the other OS, leaving 'multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)' as the only choice.
I would check the startup options first, before removing the partition. Then, if my instructions above make sense, delete the partition and then edit the startup file. If you don't see the 'multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)' string in your startup file, don't change anything, as you'll likely make both installations unbootable. If that is the case, post your boot.ini file (the one being edited) here, and I'll tell you which lines to keep and which lines to toss.
I didn't make myself clear. There is only ONE partition. I edited the boot.ini before even deleting the expanded partition. I also deleted the winme folder. I do have a hidden folder called "restore", it's contents are:diskcfg, srdiskid, VxdMon.cfg and VxdMon. Is that a folder I should get rid of??and it's over 600 mb. I don't know what do! am I screwed?
I finally did it. Someone told me to delete that _restore hidden folder in the C drive because they said it was a WINME left over. I thought it would screw up my computer but it didn't PLUS I regained over 600 mb on my hard drive! I realize win2000 is bigger than winme and takes up more space so I will never get all my space back but at least I got alot of it back!
Plus stability, and the goodness of Windows 2000, instead of the horror that is ME. There have been instances where Microsoft has disclaimed its existence...
ryri
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November 24th, 2003 15:00
i don't email- it goes against the spirit of a forum.
Be careful when you do this, or you could destroy the partition you want to save. Right click on my computer and go to manage. Now click on disk management. In the right pane, you should see an image of your hard drive with it's partitions. Right click on the one you want to delete (make sure you are *sure* it's the right one), and delete it.
Now, right click on my computer again, and this time click properties. Click on the advanced tab, and then click on startup and recovery settings (the bottom of the 3 buttons). Now, click to edit the startup options manually. Because you only have one partition on the C drive now, you need to tell the loader to load from partition 1. Therefore, change the default os location to "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)" and under the [operating systems] section, delete the other OS, leaving 'multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)' as the only choice.
I would check the startup options first, before removing the partition. Then, if my instructions above make sense, delete the partition and then edit the startup file. If you don't see the 'multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)' string in your startup file, don't change anything, as you'll likely make both installations unbootable. If that is the case, post your boot.ini file (the one being edited) here, and I'll tell you which lines to keep and which lines to toss.
LadyAussieFan
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November 24th, 2003 21:00
I didn't make myself clear. There is only ONE partition. I edited the boot.ini before even deleting the expanded partition. I also deleted the winme folder. I do have a hidden folder called "restore", it's contents are:diskcfg, srdiskid, VxdMon.cfg and VxdMon. Is that a folder I should get rid of??and it's over 600 mb. I don't know what do! am I screwed?
Candy
LadyAussieFan
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November 25th, 2003 00:00
I finally did it. Someone told me to delete that _restore hidden folder in the C drive because they said it was a WINME left over. I thought it would screw up my computer but it didn't PLUS I regained over 600 mb on my hard drive! I realize win2000 is bigger than winme and takes up more space so I will never get all my space back but at least I got alot of it back!
Candy
CSmith06
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November 25th, 2003 01:00