re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows XP on dual OS?'
Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 9:23 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jean Paul
(2 messages posted)
I was afraid someone will advice me this kind of solution:( Well, It was also what
I had in mind I just thought that maybe somebody have other solutions. Thank you
Larry.
On Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 9:08 am, Larry wrote:
>Without having the installations on 2 different partitions, you are basically stuck
>doing it down and dirty. First you will have to edit the boot.ini file and take
out
>any reference to your XP installation. Reboot. This should boot straight into Windows98.
>Then you can manually delete the directories that were exclusively WindowsXP. Unfortunately
>this will still leave traces of XP, since it would be impossible to tell the difference
>between Win98 and WinXP system files. If, for some reason, your computer doesn't
>boot into Win98, your only recourse will be to reformat and start from scratch(which
>with the possibility of leaving potential harmful fragments behind would be preferable).
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