re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?'
Tuesday, February 18, 2003 at 11:25 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by wise_dawg
(1 messages posted)
My suggestion would be to reformat your HD*, use a partition software to set up your
HD and then re-instal XP.
*Reformating your HD will blow away any and all info on the drive, so store all files
you wish to retain on a removable media before formating.
This is a barbaric solution to your problem, but if you want a clean drive and clean
install...........
On Tuesday, February 18, 2003 at 5:29 am, james wrote:
>I have a question about How
>do I uninstall Windows?:
>
>i have xp installed as my main os but still have the remains of 2000 and a failed
>xp insallation. i have removed the two unused os from the boot menu but am still
>left with FOUR windows folders in the program files folder of my hard drive. they
>are : windows, windowsx, windowsxx and winnt. windowsxx is a temp folder, but the
>other three are a gig each in size. if i just delete the two i don't want (winnt
>and windowsx) will this adversely affect my system or current xp os. i know that
>the windows folder is linked to the current os because the line "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft
>Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect" appears in my boot file and where it says
\WINDOWS=
>it said winnt= or windowsx= for the os that i removed from this boot file. confused?
> basically, can i just delete the folders winnt and windowsx without hurting my
computer?
>cheers
>james
>
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