A friend brought her computer to me and asked me to see if I could get it working. It had windows xp but when it booted up the operating system wouldn't load properly. She did not have the original installation disks.
Since the computer is going to be in the family room for the kids, she told me it was okay to install windows 2000, which I did. It's working fine but the old windows xp files are still on the hard drive under "windows" and of course 2000 installed to "winnt". Also, while booting up I get the screen with the option to boot to xp or to 2000 and I have like, 30 seconds to choose and so on.
I would like to avoid that option screen and I would like to get the windows xp files off the hard drive. Everything I've seen says to uninstall however, I can't find where xp is installed. Following instructions to start in safe mode, go to add/remove programs, and uninstall xp is a dead end because xp is not in the list of installed programs???
I tried osuninst.exe from the command prompt and received this error:
"osuninst.exe Entry Point Not Found
The procedure entry point createactctyw could not be located in the dynamic link library kernel32.dll."
I'm at a loss.
Any help is appreciated.
Kathline
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