re: Uninstalling Windows XP manually with no add/remove option
Tuesday, January 29, 2002 at 8:42 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Kyle Paulson
(1 messages posted)
It is going to be in your root directory on your C (boot) drive (c:\boot.ini)...
you can't see it from ME unless you go into 'Folder Options...' from the Tools menu,
select the 'Tools' tab... and deselect 'Hide protected operating system files..'
On Tuesday, January 29, 2002 at 12:47 pm, Riiz wrote:
>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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