Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?' Saturday, December 22, 2001 at 9:27 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by SRJ (6 messages posted) Urgent! Do you know how to uninstall windows xp professional to get back all my files that existed under My Documents folder of the previous Windows ME? I did use the Search selection of the windows xp professional to find the *.doc and *.xls files, but no files are found. Did I lose all my files that existed in the My Documents folder before installing the Windows xp pro? I do find backup.cab 596,074 kb 11:50 pm 12/20/2001 (also boot. cab 3:18 pm 12/21/2001). Is My Documents folder containing over 60 .doc and .xls files still there in the said backup.cab file? If so, how to get back the said files? This is how I installed the Windows XP pro on my pentium3 computer: 1. I had Windows ME (unstable, unreliable!) running for 6 months using an internet cable connection from AT & T. 2. Just a few days ago, I installed windows 2000 under what is called dual booting with Windows ME; used two separate drives- Windows ME on C: drive and Windows 2000 on D drive; no change in data partition. no application programs were installed on windows 2000. 3. Proceeded to install Windows XP Pro and selected upgrade to preserve all my installed programs and data files, but the last 1 minute (displaying deleting temp files) of installation of Windows XP pro stayed forever; only way out was to unplug the electric power cord. Then, I booted off the XP CD, and selected install to install XP in a new directory called windowsX (instead of windows directory). Thus, successfully installed XP pro as a new installation in the new directory WindowsX. with a display of just one icon called RecycleBin on my desktop. My main concern is what happened to all my files under the previous (Windows ME) Desktop that displayed My Documents containing the folders of My Documents, My Music, and My Pictures. Responses to this message: re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?' (Chris Lovato: Sunday, December 23, 2001 at 12:13 am) re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?' (mary: Thursday, January 10, 2002 at 8:00 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?' (SRJ: Sat, Dec 22, 2001, 9:27 pm) re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?' (Chris Lovato: Sun, Dec 23, 2001, 12:13 am) re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?' (SRJ: Sun, Dec 23, 2001, 12:52 am) re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?' (mary: Thu, Jan 10, 2002, 8:00 am) re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?' (Mike: Wed, Apr 10, 2002, 3:03 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum