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[juju Profile]

I recently purchased a new PC with XP Pro installed. My old machine is a triple boot, with ME, 2000, and the XP Beta. I plan to give this old machine to my wife, without the XP Beta. How to I remove the XP Beta safely? I noticed the installation of the beta created two folders on my Win 2000 partition named USMT2.UNC. Both of these folders (one folder is on the D: drive and the other in the Documents and Settings/Adminstrator folder). They both contain approx. 156 Mb of data that seem to be setup info for the XP beta. I would normally just use Partion Magic 6 to remove the XP partition, but these USMT2.UNC folders worry me. Any suggestions?

[MadDad Profile]

First of all you will need to remove the entry for XP from the boot.ini file. After formatting the XP partition you will effectively have removed XP. Personally I would move these .unc files to a temp folder and see what happens. It does not sound to mee as if that would be a real problem.