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re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?'
Wednesday, December 26, 2001 at 2:22 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Tom S
(200 messages posted)
Don't lose hope -- this may get your data back. (What better example can there be
of a reason to do a full data backup -- as Microsoft repeatedly advises -- before
upgrading????) Visit the Microsoft Product Support Services webpage at http://support.microsoft.com/
and do a search referring to their article #Q307153 and that might help you successfully
complete the XP installation and recover your data. I used their advice and it worked
just fine. Microsoft has excellent advice when you can just locate it...
On Tuesday, December 25, 2001 at 2:19 pm, Shiv wrote:
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>What a disaster! Microsoft's newest operating system: Windows XP professional while
>upgrading the Windows ME caused system hanging/failure in the last one minute of
>its long 60 minutes of upgrading installation. The message displayed: 1 minute left,
>deleting temp files. As a result of the failure of the XP Professional to 100% complete
>the upgrade installation over the Windows ME in the default directory called Windows,
>all my .doc and .xls files of My Documents directory have vanished although a backup.cab
>596,074 kb was created by the XP Pro installation in a directory called Undo. Because
>there was no 100% completion of the XP installation to install the upgrade over
existing
>ME, now it is NOT possible for me to uninstall the Windows XP professional. Someone
>suggested this solution, ?Click on Start | control panel | add or remove programs
>| highlight remove windows XP| click ok. That's it.?, but this suggested solution
>works only when there is 100% complete installation to upgrade existing ME.
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>Is My Documents folder containing over 60 .doc and .xls files still there in the
>said backup.cab file? If so, does anyone know how to extract my files from the said
>backup.cab file? Not only the contents of My Documents containing the folders of
>My Documents, My Music, and My Pictures but also the contents of Desktop that I
used
>to see in Windows ME have also vanished.
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