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re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows xp?'
Monday, July 26, 2004 at 1:20 pm
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Posted by TedG (19 messages posted)

Hi Really hope your still using this forum. Your post below is the answer to my prays but have a problem: - When booting from the floppy and typing 'sys c' I get the message 'Parameter format not correct - c' Can you help? Thanks

On Friday, July 26, 2002 at 2:09 pm, Christopher wrote: 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!

Written in response to:: re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows xp?' (Christopher: Friday, July 26, 2002 at 2:09 pm)

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re: You really need the basics (Kiwi: Monday, July 26, 2004 at 2:04 pm)

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