re: Uninstalling Windows XP manually with no add/remove option
Tuesday, January 29, 2002 at 12:47 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Riiz
(1 messages posted)
Hi there
I have the exact same problem about removing Windows XP but I can't find this boot.ini
file. I've searched both within Windows ME and Windows XP.
On Tuesday, November 13, 2001 at 6:46 pm, Lawrence Smith wrote:
>In a dual-boot system, such as win98 & WinXP/Win2k, you need to edit boot.ini file
>and make the default booting operating system to be Windows 98. In the boot.ini
>file, you will need to delete the references to WindowsXP/2K from the file. This
>will prevent your machine from detecting the boot instructions for these operting
>systems. This is also assuming that you have WinXP/2K installed on a separate partition.
>Then all you have to do is restart your machine, which should boot into your Windows
>98 without showing any other boot options. When you have booted up in Win98, you
>can just delete all of the files on the WinXP/2K partition.
>
>
>On Monday, November 12, 2001 at 3:50 pm, Ben wrote:
>I recently installed windows XP dual booting with Windows 98, and I want to remove
>Windows XP. I read that there should be the option in the Add/Remove programs box
>to remove Windows XP, but there is nothing. How do I remove WinXP manually? Some
>help would be greatly appreciated.
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