I have my computer divided into 2 main partitions (and 2 minor ones). I have windows XP Prof. on both main partitions. I want to remove or unistall the XP Prof from one of the partitions and install Windows NT-4 in it's place. How do I do this? Note: installing the NT over the XP won't work.

format the partition of the xp you do not want, I would recommend keeping the one that is on C: drive

After drive is formatted you need to edit the boot.ini file so that you will no longer have the option menu when you start PC to choose which OS to boot to



On c: drive, you need to edit boot.ini
right click on boot.ini and choose edit
it will look similar to this



[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=”Micro soft Windows XP Professional” /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=”Micro soft Windows XP Professional” /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn


You need to remove the line that reflects the version you removed to make it look like this




[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=”Micro soft Windows XP Professional” /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

So you will only have 1 line that is like the last line, not 2 as i first pic

now you will just boot into xp so that you could install NT to the formatted partition

You could have replied with your response as opposed to rating my answer. What you asked was answered.


I should have explained it better.

For rating my answer in a negative way, I guess that may have helped as I did answer the question as it was posted.