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Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?'
Saturday, December 22, 2001 at 9:27 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by SRJ
(6 messages posted)
Urgent! Do you know how to uninstall windows xp professional to get back all my files
that existed under My Documents folder of the previous Windows ME? I did use the
Search selection of the windows xp professional to find the *.doc and *.xls files,
but no files are found. Did I lose all my files that existed in the My Documents
folder before installing the Windows xp pro?
I do find backup.cab 596,074 kb 11:50 pm 12/20/2001 (also boot. cab 3:18 pm 12/21/2001).
Is My Documents folder containing over 60 .doc and .xls files still there in the
said backup.cab file? If so, how to get back the said files?
This is how I installed the Windows XP pro on my pentium3 computer:
1. I had Windows ME (unstable, unreliable!) running for 6 months using an internet
cable connection from AT & T.
2. Just a few days ago, I installed windows 2000 under what is called dual booting
with Windows ME; used two separate drives- Windows ME on C: drive and Windows 2000
on D drive; no change in data partition. no application programs were installed on
windows 2000.
3. Proceeded to install Windows XP Pro and selected upgrade to preserve all my installed
programs and data files, but the last 1 minute (displaying deleting temp files) of
installation of Windows XP pro stayed forever; only way out was to unplug the electric
power cord. Then, I booted off the XP CD, and selected install to install XP in a
new directory called windowsX (instead of windows directory). Thus, successfully
installed XP pro as a new installation in the new directory WindowsX. with a display
of just one icon called RecycleBin on my desktop.
My main concern is what happened to all my files under the previous (Windows ME)
Desktop that displayed My Documents containing the folders of My Documents, My Music,
and My Pictures.
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