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Tuesday, December 25, 2001 at 2:19 pm
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Posted by SRJ (6 messages posted)



What a disaster! Microsoft's newest operating system: Windows XP professional while 
upgrading the Windows ME caused system hanging/failure in the last one minute of 
its long 60 minutes of upgrading installation. The message displayed: 1 minute left, 
deleting temp files. As a result of the failure of the XP Professional to 100% complete 
the upgrade installation over the Windows ME in the default directory called Windows, 
all my .doc and .xls files of My Documents directory have vanished although a backup.cab 
596,074 kb was created by the XP Pro installation in a directory called Undo. Because 
there was no 100% completion of the XP installation to install the upgrade over existing 
ME, now it is NOT possible for me to uninstall the Windows XP professional. Someone 
suggested this solution, “Click on Start | control panel | add or remove programs 
| highlight remove windows XP| click ok. That's it.”, but this suggested solution 
works only when there is 100% complete installation to upgrade existing ME. 

Is My Documents folder containing over 60 .doc and .xls files still there in the 
said backup.cab file? If so, does anyone know how to extract my files from the said 
backup.cab file? Not only the contents of My Documents containing the folders of 
My Documents, My Music, and My Pictures but also the contents of Desktop that I used 
to see in Windows ME have also vanished.







Responses to this message:
*re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?' (Steve: Tuesday, December 25, 2001 at 4:34 pm)
*re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?' (Tom S: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 at 2:22 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?' (SRJ: Tue, Dec 25, 2001, 2:19 pm)
*re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?' (Steve: Tue, Dec 25, 2001, 4:34 pm)
-re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?' (Tom S: Wed, Dec 26, 2001, 2:22 am)
-re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?' (brandon: Fri, Jan 3, 2003, 5:15 pm)
*re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?' (Katey: Sun, Nov 2, 2003, 11:34 pm)
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