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| INSTALL A FRESH COPY OF WIN2K, LEAVING THE OLD COPY INTACT |
| If you run Setup.exe from an existing Windows 2000 installation and |
| install to a new folder, Setup doesn't remove the existing installation. In |
| fact, you can dual-boot between the two. It's unlikely that you would want |
| to do so, however, unless you need to test different configurations and |
| don't want to reconfigure the existing installation. Or, perhaps you want |
| to have a backup installation you can use to boot the system if the |
| original becomes unstable or unbootable. |
| If you don't need both copies, you can remove one. To do so, first edit |
| Boot.ini to remove the entry for the Windows 2000 installation you'll be |
| removing. Make sure to check the path in the entry to be sure you're |
| deleting the right one. Then, change the value of the DEFAULT entry in the |
| [boot loader] section to point to the installation you're keeping. |
| When you reboot the system, it will boot to the copy of Windows 2000 |
| that you want to keep, assuming you made the correct changes to Boot.ini. |
| You can check to be sure by opening a command console and typing the |
| following command, which echoes the system root folder to the console: |
| When you're satisfied that you've booted the right copy, you can open |
| Windows Explorer and delete the old Windows 2000 system folder. |
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