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re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows XP on dual OS?'
Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 9:23 am
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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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re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows XP on dual OS?' (Larry: Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 9:08 am)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows XP on dual OS?' (Jean Paul: Thu, May 23, 2002, 8:13 am)
-re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows XP on dual OS?' (Larry: Thu, May 23, 2002, 9:08 am)
*re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows XP on dual OS?' (Jean Paul: Thu, May 23, 2002, 9:23 am)
*re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows XP on dual OS?' (Jose Santiago: Thu, Jun 6, 2002, 6:58 pm)
-re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows XP on dual OS?' (wingwing: Tue, Jun 11, 2002, 11:42 pm)
*uninstall windows 2000 (william keifer: Fri, Jun 28, 2002, 9:55 pm)
*re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows XP on dual OS?' (][en: Sat, Nov 30, 2002, 5:17 pm)
*Answer to 'How do I uninstall Windows XP on dual OS?' (kryptonite: Mon, Jul 15, 2002, 12:48 pm)
*re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows XP on dual OS?' (Dr. JK Bisht: Tue, Apr 22, 2003, 9:54 pm)
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