re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?' Thursday, January 10, 2002 at 8:00 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by mary (1 messages posted) On Saturday, December 22, 2001 at 9:27 pm, Shiv wrote: >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. Written in response to: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?' (SRJ: Saturday, December 22, 2001 at 9:27 pm) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?' (Mike: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 at 3:03 pm) 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