re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?'
Sunday, January 13, 2002 at 12:05 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Tom S
(200 messages posted)
Go to MS product support website and search for article Q307153. It worked for me.
On Thursday, January 10, 2002 at 9:50 am, SRJ wrote:
>How to get back My Documents files lost while upgrading from Windows ME to XP Pro?
>Windows XP professional while upgrading the Windows ME caused
>system hanging/failure in the very last one minute of its upgrading
>installation process. The message displayed: 1 minute left, deleting temp files.
>Upon this message becoming eternal, I
>had no choice but to unplug the electric power cord to reboot the computer;
>the upgrading installation got stuck again at the same stage. As a result of
>the repeated 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 were lost although backup.cab
>596,074 kb and BOOT.CAB were created by the XP Pro installation in a
>directory called Undo. 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.
>
>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 vanished.
>
>Using WinZip, I have extracted all contents from BACKUP.CAB in a seaparate
>directory on my drive C. I also have BOOT.CAB, and Winzip shows me that it
>contains several files including delfiles.txt size:1,459,798, autochk.exe,
>moved.txt, and deldirs.txt. I had in My Documents folder many .doc and .xls
>files; I do not find any of them. While reading said delfiles.txt, I find
>the following entry which gives the name of Abooknew .doc file I am looking
>for :
>
>C:\Documents and Settings\srj\Recent\Abooknew.doc.lnk
>
>It appears that all my files under My Documents were deleted by the XP pro
>installer.
>
>Currently I have put in a new 60 GB hard
>disk with two partitions: C drive for freshly installed Windows ME and E drive for
>freshly installed Windows XP pro under a dual boot system; the hard disk previously
>called C drive (on which I tried to upgrade from ME to XP pro) has now become D
drive.
> Does anyone know how to get back all my .doc and .xls files from My Documents file
>that might be hiding somewhere on my current D drive?
>
>Thanks for your help.
>
>
>
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