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re: Uninstalling xp Friday, November 16, 2001 at 11:58 pm Posted by Chips Davis (2 messages posted) I recently intalled XP and love it, but everyone has his or her ideas on what an OS should do. To uninstall, I would boot from a floppy disk first. If you need to, change your BIOS setting to boot only from a disk. You should have a floppy around to boot or you may use an older version of Windows. Next, go to to the directory where XP is intalled and delete all files, then install the OS you want. Or you can simply refomat the drive and reinstall, but you will lose all data. Hope that helps On Friday, November 16, 2001 at 10:39 pm, Sean Lonnecker wrote: >Does anyone have any idea how I can uninstall xp? After having installed it and >seen nearly ALL of my software not compatible with xp, I earnestly believe that a >raging bonfire is the only good place left for that OS. Microsoft's tech-line was >as "helpful" as usual. > >(Side note, if I ever manage to get it uninstalled, I'll have a keg at the bonfire, >everyone's welcome.) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstalling xp Saturday, November 17, 2001 at 12:02 am Posted by BN (4 messages posted) I think I saw an uninstall option when I first popped the disk in to install it. Have you tried that? On Friday, November 16, 2001 at 10:39 pm, Sean Lonnecker wrote: >Does anyone have any idea how I can uninstall xp? After having installed it and >seen nearly ALL of my software not compatible with xp, I earnestly believe that a >raging bonfire is the only good place left for that OS. Microsoft's tech-line was >as "helpful" as usual. > >(Side note, if I ever manage to get it uninstalled, I'll have a keg at the bonfire, >everyone's welcome.) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstalling xp Saturday, November 17, 2001 at 12:08 am Posted by mike (358 messages posted) If your WinXP was an upgrade and you didn't change the file system of your hard drive from FAT32, you can go to Settings -> Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs and uninstall WinXP that way. It can be uninstalled and returned to Win98 and WinMe. On Friday, November 16, 2001 at 10:39 pm, Sean Lonnecker wrote: >Does anyone have any idea how I can uninstall xp? After having installed it and >seen nearly ALL of my software not compatible with xp, I earnestly believe that a >raging bonfire is the only good place left for that OS. Microsoft's tech-line was >as "helpful" as usual. > >(Side note, if I ever manage to get it uninstalled, I'll have a keg at the bonfire, >everyone's welcome.) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstalling xp Saturday, November 17, 2001 at 4:50 pm Posted by Sean Lonnecker (2 messages posted) Awesome, that works for me. THANKS! (For anyone that's unsure why I'm so annoyed with xp....surf around this site a bit!) Thanks to all! Sean >If your WinXP was an upgrade and you didn't change the file system of your hard drive >from FAT32, you can go to Settings -> Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs and uninstall >WinXP that way. It can be uninstalled and returned to Win98 and WinMe. > > >On Friday, November 16, 2001 at 10:39 pm, Sean Lonnecker wrote: >Does anyone have any idea how I can uninstall xp? After having installed it and >seen nearly ALL of my software not compatible with xp, I earnestly believe that >a >raging bonfire is the only good place left for that OS. Microsoft's tech-line was >as "helpful" as usual. > >(Side note, if I ever manage to get it uninstalled, I'll have a keg at the bonfire, >everyone's welcome.) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstalling xp Monday, December 17, 2001 at 7:05 pm Posted by Fay Ratcliff (1 messages posted) On Friday, November 16, 2001 at 11:58 pm, Chips Davis wrote: >I recently intalled XP and love it, but everyone has his or her ideas on what an >OS should do. > >To uninstall, I would boot from a floppy disk first. If you need to, change your >BIOS setting to boot only from a disk. You should have a floppy around to boot or >you may use an older version of Windows. Next, go to to the directory where XP is >intalled and delete all files, then install the OS you want. > >Or you can simply refomat the drive and reinstall, but you will lose all data. > >Hope that helps > > >On Friday, November 16, 2001 at 10:39 pm, Sean Lonnecker wrote: >Does anyone have any idea how I can uninstall xp? After having installed it and >seen nearly ALL of my software not compatible with xp, I earnestly believe that >a >raging bonfire is the only good place left for that OS. Microsoft's tech-line was >as "helpful" as usual. > >(Side note, if I ever manage to get it uninstalled, I'll have a keg at the bonfire, >everyone's welcome.) Microsoft just cost me $4,000. I just received my Compaq Presario laptop and the Dell is on it's way. I have to have the Dos Mode option to use for my 16,000 name genealogy database. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstalling xp Saturday, December 22, 2001 at 12:11 pm Posted by Howard (1 messages posted) I'm also needing to revert from XP back to Me. I want to reformat the C drive but my Win98 startup diskette CDROM driver doesn't work with my CDROM (although I swear it used to before I moved to XP). Anyway, can I format the C drive simply from within XP or will I blow my OS out of the water and not be able to install Me? Thanks! On Monday, December 17, 2001 at 7:05 pm, Fay Ratcliff wrote: > > > >On Friday, November 16, 2001 at 11:58 pm, Chips Davis wrote: >I recently intalled XP and love it, but everyone has his or her ideas on what an >OS should do. > >To uninstall, I would boot from a floppy disk first. If you need to, change your >BIOS setting to boot only from a disk. You should have a floppy around to boot >or >you may use an older version of Windows. Next, go to to the directory where XP is >intalled and delete all files, then install the OS you want. > >Or you can simply refomat the drive and reinstall, but you will lose all data. > >Hope that helps > > >On Friday, November 16, 2001 at 10:39 pm, Sean Lonnecker wrote: >Does anyone have any idea how I can uninstall xp? After having installed it and > >seen nearly ALL of my software not compatible with xp, I earnestly believe that >a >raging bonfire is the only good place left for that OS. Microsoft's tech-line was > >as "helpful" as usual. > >(Side note, if I ever manage to get it uninstalled, I'll have a keg at the bonfire, > >everyone's welcome.) > > >Microsoft just cost me $4,000. I just received my Compaq Presario laptop and the >Dell is on it's way. I have to have the Dos Mode option to use for my 16,000 name >genealogy database. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstalling xp Thursday, January 10, 2002 at 9:34 am Posted by Ian Johnstone (1 messages posted) I have tried numerous ways/ suggestions. Nothing removes XP. Microsoft have got a lot to answer for. On Friday, November 16, 2001 at 10:39 pm, Sean Lonnecker wrote: >Does anyone have any idea how I can uninstall xp? After having installed it and >seen nearly ALL of my software not compatible with xp, I earnestly believe that a >raging bonfire is the only good place left for that OS. Microsoft's tech-line was >as "helpful" as usual. > >(Side note, if I ever manage to get it uninstalled, I'll have a keg at the bonfire, >everyone's welcome.) [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum