re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows xp?'
Sunday, March 28, 2004 at 8:57 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by alex
(2 messages posted)
Dear Chris:
impressive knowledge i noticed from your note. and so i need your help please.
i have partitition magic by power questV. 8, i used it to partition my drive to 2,
one partition already have W 98 SE , i start installing W_XP home from the already
exiciting W-98 when i relalized that i can install XP directly from my floppy using
the new bootable xp 6 floppy disks, i shut down the computer during XP installation
and once stat booting i boot it using the installation XP floopy disks which help
me to get to my CDRom XP Cd and walla fish the installment.
i reinstall my boot magic and set it to XP- 98.
howver once i boot to XP i get that black screen of option to boot to XP and to XP
one of the choices boots well to xp the second option fails giving me the error
of system root missing file ( which is obviosly areminant of my stupid cutting the
early installment from W-98) now how i can delete the second option of uncomplet
XP. please help.
On Friday, July 26, 2002 at 2:09 pm, you wrote:
>
>Check out:
>
>http://www.windowsreinstall.com/install/uninstall/winxp.htm, or search for "osuninst.exe"
>from Google. There you'll even find pages at Annoyances.org.
>
>However, I have two OS installed on my computer -- 1 on each of two partitions (as
>it should be, as this doesn't mess up each one's Registry, etc.). I just want to
>remove XP, which was installed fresh on a separate partition (not on top of another
>OS). The easiest was is to simply wipe and reformat the XP partition. However I
was
>concerned that this would leave the boot-up options (which let you choose which
of
>the OS to boot) intact and unabl;e to remove them. As it turned out, you can just
>delete XP and worry about that later, though, as I describe below.
>
>1. Create a Win98 bootable floppy (format + copy system files)
>2. Copy c:\windows\command\attrib.exe and sys.com to the floppy
>3. Reboot using the floppy. Type A:\sys c: (if C: is the partition you want to keep
>which has Win98 on it, and D: contains XP). This will restore the original booting
>option to be Win98-only by restoring the system (i.e. bootup) files.
>4. (this step may not be necessary, though it won't hurt, either) You'll get an
error
>that it couldn't copy command.com. If so, then type "A:\attrib -S -H c:\comamnd.com",
>"del c:\command.com" and "copy c:\windows\command.com c:\command.com"
>5. Reboot without the floppy. It should go straight to Win98 without the XP options
>screen.
>6. Delete c:\boot.ini, ntdetect.exe and ntldr. These are hidden files, so you'll
>have to make them visible first (View->Options->uncheck not displaying hidden files).
>7. Wipe and reformat your d: partition. Goodbye XP!
>
>-----------------
>
>Additional stuff I checked (just details, unnecessary for the removal of XP, but
>left for completeness sake):
>
>Hence before deleting the partition (or running the directions from the link referenced
>above) I wanted to first make the other OS the default OS in the bootup process.
>This is done in WinXP Pro (and probably Home, too) as follows:
>
>- Right-click on "My Computer" and choose "Properties".
>- Select the "Advanced" tab.
>- Click the "Settings" button under "Startup and Recovery".
>- Change the drop-down list to the other OS.
>- (optional) change the "Time to display list of OS" to 0-2 seconds
>
>And then I discovered the "To edit the startup options file manually, click Edit"
>button, which opens the "boot.ini" which is stored in the root directory of the
active
>(FDISK) partition. Voila!
>
>I discovered a bunch of other system files there, too, and made a copy of them.
This
>copy turned out to be important when I hadn't copied "sys.com" to the bootable floppy
>and needed to reboot to Win98, but couldn't without these deleted files.
>
>I then tried to follow the link's instructions via MSDOS (for FAT partitions), and
>that didn't work. From Safe Mode with Command Prompt it worked, but the program
told
>me that it couldn't uninstall XP because it didn't have the necessary registration
>information. I didn't know what that was (and couldn't find out from the web), but
>assumed that it meant that I had to activate my XP installation before I could uninstall
>it. Gee. I didn't want to do that because of the annoying activation process, but
>did so, anyway, to no effect. Then MS tech support told me how to do it, which are
>the 8 steps I wrote at the top.
>
>- osuninst.exe will only work if XP was installed on top of another OS, i.e. not
>if it was a clean install on a new partition. They mention that in the KB article
>for the Add/remove programs option, but not for the osuninst.exe option.
>
>
>
>
>On Tuesday, December 18, 2001 at 4:01 pm, stephanie wrote:
>>I have a question about How
>>do I uninstall Windows 98?:
>>
>>how do i uninstall windows xp
>
>
>
On Friday, July 26, 2002 at 2:09 pm, Christopher wrote:
>Check out:
>
>http://www.windowsreinstall.com/install/uninstall/winxp.htm, or search for "osuninst.exe"
>from Google. There you'll even find pages at Annoyances.org.
>
>However, I have two OS installed on my computer -- 1 on each of two partitions (as
>it should be, as this doesn't mess up each one's Registry, etc.). I just want to
>remove XP, which was installed fresh on a separate partition (not on top of another
>OS). The easiest was is to simply wipe and reformat the XP partition. However I
was
>concerned that this would leave the boot-up options (which let you choose which
of
>the OS to boot) intact and unabl;e to remove them. As it turned out, you can just
>delete XP and worry about that later, though, as I describe below.
>
>1. Create a Win98 bootable floppy (format + copy system files)
>2. Copy c:\windows\command\attrib.exe and sys.com to the floppy
>3. Reboot using the floppy. Type A:\sys c: (if C: is the partition you want to keep
>which has Win98 on it, and D: contains XP). This will restore the original booting
>option to be Win98-only by restoring the system (i.e. bootup) files.
>4. (this step may not be necessary, though it won't hurt, either) You'll get an
error
>that it couldn't copy command.com. If so, then type "A:\attrib -S -H c:\comamnd.com",
>"del c:\command.com" and "copy c:\windows\command.com c:\command.com"
>5. Reboot without the floppy. It should go straight to Win98 without the XP options
>screen.
>6. Delete c:\boot.ini, ntdetect.exe and ntldr. These are hidden files, so you'll
>have to make them visible first (View->Options->uncheck not displaying hidden files).
>7. Wipe and reformat your d: partition. Goodbye XP!
>
>-----------------
>
>Additional stuff I checked (just details, unnecessary for the removal of XP, but
>left for completeness sake):
>
>Hence before deleting the partition (or running the directions from the link referenced
>above) I wanted to first make the other OS the default OS in the bootup process.
>This is done in WinXP Pro (and probably Home, too) as follows:
>
>- Right-click on "My Computer" and choose "Properties".
>- Select the "Advanced" tab.
>- Click the "Settings" button under "Startup and Recovery".
>- Change the drop-down list to the other OS.
>- (optional) change the "Time to display list of OS" to 0-2 seconds
>
>And then I discovered the "To edit the startup options file manually, click Edit"
>button, which opens the "boot.ini" which is stored in the root directory of the
active
>(FDISK) partition. Voila!
>
>I discovered a bunch of other system files there, too, and made a copy of them.
This
>copy turned out to be important when I hadn't copied "sys.com" to the bootable floppy
>and needed to reboot to Win98, but couldn't without these deleted files.
>
>I then tried to follow the link's instructions via MSDOS (for FAT partitions), and
>that didn't work. From Safe Mode with Command Prompt it worked, but the program
told
>me that it couldn't uninstall XP because it didn't have the necessary registration
>information. I didn't know what that was (and couldn't find out from the web), but
>assumed that it meant that I had to activate my XP installation before I could uninstall
>it. Gee. I didn't want to do that because of the annoying activation process, but
>did so, anyway, to no effect. Then MS tech support told me how to do it, which are
>the 8 steps I wrote at the top.
>
>- osuninst.exe will only work if XP was installed on top of another OS, i.e. not
>if it was a clean install on a new partition. They mention that in the KB article
>for the Add/remove programs option, but not for the osuninst.exe option.
>
>
>
>On Tuesday, December 18, 2001 at 4:01 pm, stephanie wrote:
>>I have a question about How
>>do I uninstall Windows 98?:
>>
>>how do i uninstall windows xp
>
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