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re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows xp?' Tuesday, December 18, 2001 at 6:50 pm Posted by Anthony (11 messages posted) You can't uninstall your windows if you are only running 1 operating system (windows). 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows xp?' Tuesday, December 18, 2001 at 7:14 pm Posted by BoBBy (2 messages posted) You can uninstall windows XP only if you installed it from the upgrade version. To do this simply click: Control Panel>add & remove programs> Uninstall Windows XP its near the bottom of the list there. It worked for me i'm back to my 98SE until i can get a OEM version of XP. Hope it helped. [Reply or follow-up to this message] No Problem Friday, December 21, 2001 at 6:42 am Posted by Tom S (200 messages posted) If you installed it as an upgrade, simply go to Control Panel, select ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS, and select Windows XP. In a couple of minutes your old 98 or ME will appear, just as it was before XP came upon the scene. If it wasn't installed as an upgrade, then it's a bit more complicated..... 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] Its a bit more complicated to uninstall XP non-up grade? Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 8:03 am Posted by Michael (2 messages posted) On Friday, December 21, 2001 at 6:42 am, Tom S wrote: >If you installed it as an upgrade, simply go to Control Panel, select ADD/REMOVE >PROGRAMS, and select Windows XP. In a couple of minutes your old 98 or ME will appear, >just as it was before XP came upon the scene. If it wasn't installed as an upgrade, >then it's a bit more complicated..... > I installed it from an OEM disk on a new harddrive. I need to uninstall it because I was just trying it on my spare computer to see if I was going to like it. Now I have to uninstall it so I can install it on my primary computer. But the uninstall command didn't work. Can you help? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Its a bit more complicated to uninstall XP non-up grade? Monday, April 29, 2002 at 1:39 pm Posted by keely (1 messages posted) Michael, Did you ever solve your problem? I have XP on a separate hard drive also, and I'm not finding any solution except for re-formatting. Thanks, Keely On Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 8:03 am, Michael wrote: > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Its a bit more complicated to uninstall XP non-up grade? Monday, April 29, 2002 at 7:22 pm Posted by Michael (2 messages posted) Keely, No easy solution. But my concern was addressed by microsoft. I told them about my delema, they told me to remove it (noting about reformating). I did, and when I re-installed it on a different computer and called them, they took my word for it. I have two other computers with other home XP versions it installed on them, so that might have helped. Good luck, Michael On Monday, April 29, 2002 at 1:39 pm, keely wrote: >Michael, > >Did you ever solve your problem? I have XP on a separate hard drive also, and I'm >not finding any solution except for re-formatting. > >Thanks, >Keely > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows xp?' Wednesday, May 8, 2002 at 6:27 am Posted by linda (1 messages posted) windows xp uninstall is not listed in add/remove programs what do I do? thanks linda On Tuesday, December 18, 2001 at 7:14 pm, BoBBy wrote: >You can uninstall windows XP only if you installed it from the upgrade version. >To do this simply click: > >Control Panel>add & remove programs> Uninstall Windows XP > >its near the bottom of the list there. >It worked for me i'm back to my 98SE until i can get a OEM version of XP. Hope it >helped. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows xp?' Friday, May 10, 2002 at 7:43 am Posted by IT person (1 messages posted) I guess know one knows how to unintall XP. Fuc the upgrade portion of the discussion. The OS does not recognize a floppy on start up so you cant use a 98 boot disk to fdisk. Thats my dillema. Can someone tell me how to format the damn drive. Thats it period finito! If not please do not reply with a vague response like al the others Thank You On Wednesday, May 8, 2002 at 6:27 am, linda wrote: >windows xp uninstall is not listed in add/remove programs what do I do? thanks linda > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Its a bit more complicated to uninstall XP non-up grade? Monday, July 1, 2002 at 12:16 pm Posted by Marcel Bouman (1 messages posted) Try to install MSDOS from floppy and type deltree + location of XP! On Monday, April 29, 2002 at 7:22 pm, Michael wrote: >Keely, > >No easy solution. But my concern was addressed by microsoft. I told them about >my delema, they told me to remove it (noting about reformating). I did, and when >I re-installed it on a different computer and called them, they took my word for >it. I have two other computers with other home XP versions it installed on them, >so that might have helped. > >Good luck, >Michael > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] OK, Q answered Tuesday, July 9, 2002 at 6:04 am Posted by Rob (1 messages posted) 1st, find someone using the same operating system that you are going to go to, IE Win98 etc - get them to make a boot disk for you, but also copy the format.exe off there computer onto the boot floopy, can be found in C:/Windows - if not, do a search 2nd, u will need to change the boot order in your bios XP obviously boots from the hard drive b4 anything else, we want the floppy, usually (i speak from limited experiance) you press a button as soon as the computer starts, on my computer its Del, and on my friends its F4, but whatever, in thier you should be able to find an option, if not then don't read on cos i cant help you 3rd, you should eventualy come to a DOS screeen asking if you want to boot from hard drive or cd rom, you don't want either, if you look at the bottom it should give you a command to go to DOS, off the top of my head its Ctrl + F5 or summit, well it should tell you 4th, now your in DOS, make sure your on the floppy prompt A: and type format C: - should look like A:/> foramt C: or simiar, folow the steps and make sure u put the right CD in for instalation :D -- this is pretty vague but use your initiave and you should be able to stumble through it, don't worry you CAN get rid of XP i have, although i'm back on it now, it is possible to format it note: you must use the coropsnding boot floopy, for some reason one format.exe differes from another GL and gimme a e-mail if alls succesfull, if not, then tough, you shouldnt have wanted to know :D [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Its a bit more complicated to uninstall XP non-up grade? Wednesday, July 17, 2002 at 11:01 pm Posted by Jee (1 messages posted) the problem with this is that if you have 2 OSes installed it'll screw up ur registry system. thats what happened to me :-( On Monday, July 1, 2002 at 12:16 pm, Marcel Bouman wrote: >Try to install MSDOS from floppy and type deltree + location of XP! > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows xp?' Friday, July 26, 2002 at 2:09 pm Posted by Christopher (1 messages posted) 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows xp?' Saturday, August 10, 2002 at 5:29 am Posted by Dave Suwala (1 messages posted) I am in the unhappy situation, from what has been said on Annoyances, that I installed XP on a pristine drive. I found that I can't network with my other computers which are Windows 2000. Even trying fixes published in other places in this website. Well, if I can't network, what good is it. I found that I can't boot to DOS and I want to go back to Windows 2000 for this machine. Is there anything I can do to expunge XP? Thanks, Dave 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. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows xp?' Monday, September 2, 2002 at 6:17 pm Posted by Roberta Gallant (1 messages posted) Hello. My name is Roberta Gallant and I reside in Concord, New Hampshire. I am an owner of a personal computer. Recently, I upgraded my at-home computer from Windows 98 to Windows XP Home Edition. Right now I have a problem. When I tried uninstalling and reinstalling Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Upgrade, my personal computer's monitor screen showed me a "Setup cannot install Windows XP because the necessary registration information is missing" error message. What are the other ways, if any, I can uninstall and reinstall Windows XP Home Edition Upgrade on my computer now? Have you any idea of how I can do just that? I need your help with this problem? Please email me back at lilacmay4@attbi.com. I anticipate hearing from you. Thank you for your prompt attention and reply to my very important email message. Roberta Gallant New Hampshire 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. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] I have Uninstalled XP pfu.. Thursday, September 5, 2002 at 9:54 am Posted by Jahman (1 messages posted) How to uninstall XP , when U have only one HDD U have to prepare Ur self with I. Setup 98 disk make shure that ur boot disk contain: *fdisk.exe *format.com II. Windows 98 CD for instalation make shure that ur CD contain: *the code ;P /better write on paper if it is in th CD/ 1. Boot from the floppy disk /check ur settings in the bios for 1st booting device/ - boot with CD rom support /option(2)/ write - fdisk here u have to eliminate the XP partision and create primary DOS partition <==========R.F.M.=========> 2. restart 3. enter from the boot disk and chose Install windows 98 from the CD /option (1)/ 4. chose format option and wait ... Resume: *fdisk *remove XP create DOS *98CD *format and visit my site for www.fcpublicidad.com [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: No Problem Monday, September 16, 2002 at 3:30 pm Posted by Tmoss (1 messages posted) I've installed XP as an upgrade, but when I go to Add/Rem Prog I don't find it there!! Any Idea? Thx On Friday, December 21, 2001 at 6:42 am, Tom S wrote: >If you installed it as an upgrade, simply go to Control Panel, select ADD/REMOVE >PROGRAMS, and select Windows XP. In a couple of minutes your old 98 or ME will appear, >just as it was before XP came upon the scene. If it wasn't installed as an upgrade, >then it's a bit more complicated..... > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: No Problem Wednesday, September 18, 2002 at 7:06 am Posted by TJS (3 messages posted) On Monday, September 16, 2002 at 3:30 pm, Tmoss wrote: >I've installed XP as an upgrade, but when I go to Add/Rem Prog I don't find it there!! > >Any Idea? > --During installation, I believe that you were asked the question "DO YOU WANT TO KEEP YOUR OLD OPERATING SYSTEM?" so that it can be restored, if need be. If you answered NO to that question, then you wouldn't have the option of easily un-installing XP. Honestly, XP is a LOT better than the previous OS's. Back up all of your data files, and give XP the benefit of the doubt by doing a boot-to-XPCDROM and select the option of doing a cold clean full install of XP. It's worth it. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: No Problem Tuesday, October 8, 2002 at 3:43 am Posted by sonic (1 messages posted) It seems if you had Windows NT or Windows 2000 prior to performing the upgrade to Windows XP, you are not given an uninstall option in the end. I have the same problem, so, I don't know. All I can say is back up your files and choose either XP (it will run slightly faster) or your previous OS to install as a clean install. On Monday, September 16, 2002 at 3:30 pm, Tmoss wrote: >I've installed XP as an upgrade, but when I go to Add/Rem Prog I don't find it there!! > >Any Idea? > >Thx > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] how do i uninstall win xp Tuesday, January 14, 2003 at 11:22 am Posted by sam (1 messages posted) put in blank floppy and type-------uninstall.exe [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows xp?' Sunday, April 6, 2003 at 5:00 pm Posted by Hans (47 messages posted) My XP is NOT even listed in the Unintall place!!! What the heck should I do? Thanks! Hans L. On Tuesday, December 18, 2001 at 6:50 pm, Anthony wrote: >You can't uninstall your windows if you are only running 1 operating system (windows). > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows xp?' Monday, July 14, 2003 at 9:18 am Posted by Rachel Udy (1 messages posted) I went to my control panel and went to add or romove programs and I couldn't find Windows xp there is something that says, Windows XP Hotfix (SP1) [See q314862 for more information], there are 4 of them but they all have different numbers. I really want to uninstall and then reinstall Windows XP but I don't know how in uninstall it. My computer is really slow and I think it has a lot of programs I don't need on it and I want to reinstall Window as if I just installed it for the first time. How do I do this? On Tuesday, December 18, 2001 at 7:14 pm, BoBBy wrote: >You can uninstall windows XP only if you installed it from the upgrade version. >To do this simply click: > >Control Panel>add & remove programs> Uninstall Windows XP > >its near the bottom of the list there. >It worked for me i'm back to my 98SE until i can get a OEM version of XP. Hope it >helped. [Reply or follow-up to this message] How to uninstall reinstall windows XP if you have the CD Thursday, August 14, 2003 at 12:31 am Posted by Thomas Vincent (1 messages posted) Ok, my problem was that, i had only one partition on my hard disk and i couldn't uninstall the OS from there. I tried for the osuninstall.exe, but mysteriously, i was missing the log file for that. I tried re-installing with the CD from XP itself, but it reinstalled, but kept all the old file and couldn't partition the disk either. So this is what i did. This only helps if you want to un-install and re-install XP and partition your Hard Disk while you are at it. ** Jesus saves! Saves you, but not your work! So make sure that you do a good back up of the system, before attempting any re-installation etc. ** Insert the CD with XP on it. ** Go to set up (press F2 when the computer starts) ** Go to boot options ** Disable booting from floppy or hard drive(Shift+1), or some other key like that( i dunno where you got your computer from, but mine is a Dell) ** Save changes and exit ** Select Windows XP Setup from the succeeding menu ** When you are prompted with the options, select the drive on which XP is located and choose format ** Hope you have done the back up! DOH! ** Format the drive ** You can chose to partition the drive at this stage **Proceed with the rest of the installation **And thats it! Hope this was of any use to you! [Reply or follow-up to this message] how do i uninstall win xp Wednesday, August 27, 2003 at 3:43 am Posted by Dave (1 messages posted) PLEASE HELP ME!!! I have recently got a second hand laptop with xp home on it. One of my friends in all his wisdom has installed an evaluation copt of xp home. The registration date has passed so I can't login to it anymore. I can boot up command prompt save mode I have tried uninstalling it using the commabd osuninst.exe but it says "setup can not uninstall windowsXP becausethe necassary registration information is missing". Does anyone have any idea how to get past this so I can uninstall it. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: how do i uninstall win xp Tuesday, October 7, 2003 at 12:42 pm Posted by Todd (1 messages posted) To unistall windows the only other way that I know is to obtain a windows xp boot disk put it in and when you finally get to the command prompt screen type fromat c:/ but I must wrn you that you will lose EVERYTHING off your hard drive if you do this. Hope this helps with your problem. On Wednesday, August 27, 2003 at 3:43 am, Dave wrote: >PLEASE HELP ME!!! > >I have recently got a second hand laptop with xp home on it. One of my friends in >all his wisdom has installed an evaluation copt of xp home. The registration date >has passed so I can't login to it anymore. I can boot up command prompt save mode >I have tried uninstalling it using the commabd osuninst.exe but it says "setup can >not uninstall windowsXP becausethe necassary registration information is missing". >Does anyone have any idea how to get past this so I can uninstall it. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows xp?' Tuesday, October 7, 2003 at 1:17 pm Posted by jack (1 messages posted) I have same thing. Windows XP is NOT represented in the add/remove programes list. (the hotfixes are though). my version is the upgrade version. whats going on??????!!!!!!!! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: how do i uninstall win xp Tuesday, October 21, 2003 at 1:16 am Posted by Dave (1 messages posted) Excellent idea Todd and thanks for your response but unfortunatley I don't have an xp boot disc in my possesion is there any other way to do this with out the disc [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Its a bit more complicated to uninstall XP non-up grade? Wednesday, October 29, 2003 at 9:29 pm Posted by Matt (1 messages posted) I tried to uninstall winXP back to my previous version, but it tells me that my hard drive partition has changed since upgrading. I have not changed any partitions Please Help!!!!!!!! On Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 8:03 am, Michael wrote: > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows xp?' Sunday, November 2, 2003 at 9:21 am Posted by Beko Gabor (1 messages posted) You helped me a lot [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to uninstall reinstall windows XP if you have the CD Wednesday, December 17, 2003 at 10:28 pm Posted by hondascott (1 messages posted) Now jesus saves computers from idiots. Will HIS wonders never ceast? Pray that humanity survives religeon and realizes that you treat people right TODAY. not "tomorrow", or the "next lifetime", this IS your shot. On Thursday, August 14, 2003 at 12:31 am, Thomas Vincent wrote: > >Ok, my problem was that, i had only one partition on my hard disk and i couldn't >uninstall the OS from there. I tried for the osuninstall.exe, but mysteriously, i >was missing the log file for that. I tried re-installing with the CD from XP itself, >but it reinstalled, but kept all the old file and couldn't partition the disk either. >So this is what i did. > >This only helps if you want to un-install and re-install XP and partition your Hard >Disk while you are at it. > >** Jesus saves! Saves you, but not your work! So make sure that you do a good back >up of the system, before attempting any re-installation etc. >** Insert the CD with XP on it. >** Go to set up (press F2 when the computer starts) >** Go to boot options >** Disable booting from floppy or hard drive(Shift+1), or some other key like that( >i dunno where you got your computer from, but mine is a Dell) >** Save changes and exit >** Select Windows XP Setup from the succeeding menu >** When you are prompted with the options, select the drive on which XP is located >and choose format >** Hope you have done the back up! DOH! >** Format the drive >** You can chose to partition the drive at this stage >**Proceed with the rest of the installation >**And thats it! > >Hope this was of any use to you! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Its a bit more complicated to uninstall XP non-up grade? Monday, February 9, 2004 at 12:34 pm Posted by Me (1 messages posted) Did you find a solution to uninstalling one OS without corrupting the outher? I have both XP home and XP prof installed and I want to uninstall the home version, but the first time I did it it upset the registary key. Help!!!! On Wednesday, July 17, 2002 at 11:01 pm, Jee wrote: >the problem with this is that if you have 2 OSes installed it'll screw up ur registry >system. thats what happened to me :-( > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: how do i uninstall win xp Tuesday, February 10, 2004 at 7:19 am Posted by dave s (1 messages posted) GREETINGS TO ALL, The main problem to identify is win x'sannoyance of locking down the files so you can't easily do anything with them. A fresh install of it, or another os like ME/98SE could make all in this forum happier. the ideas or principles are simple: 1) boot from a bootable floppy or cd. 2) format the hard drive partition containing windows xp. * Note that there are more than a few ways of doing this. You can use fdisk from microsoft, however, there is a much better way. I use a partitioning utility program, partition magic 7.01 from Power Quest. To do this now in case you are in limbo, will require access to a computer with a correctly running windows program. Install PQ magic, and then choose to make an emergency disk. This will make a bootable disk and a non bootable disk(2 floppies). Now place the first disk(bootable) into the floppy disk of your misbehaving computer, and hit cntrl-alt-del and reboot the computer. As before go into the bios to make sure that you have boot from a drive first, then save and exit. Computer then should boot to a prompt. a:> Now take out first floppy and place second floppy in the a drive. type at thye a:> pqmagic and hit enter, Bingo, pqmagic starts up, you can then choose to remove the partition and secure erase it, create a new partition, fat32 if you want to go back to ME/98SE/98 and then you choose to exit, it will prompt you if you want to make changes. Say yes and remove floppy from disk drive as the computer starts booting back up. after it is done, you will have a formatted partition. You then need to reinstall your windows o.s. One point to note: If you have multiple partitions already, you can easily set another primary partition to active, in order to boot up to another o.s. that was already installed on another partition, and then you can install PQmagic in the windows o.s. that you boot up to and run it from windows. From there you will be able to remove the winxp partition, or any other one, resize partitions, or make and format new partitions. Pqmagic and system commander(make sure to get the latest version) are both good for these features and abilities. Good luck, and Yes Jesus can save your data, media, computer, but most importantly, you! Sincerely, Dave S. Jesus man On Tuesday, October 21, 2003 at 1:16 am, Dave wrote: >Excellent idea Todd and thanks for your response but unfortunatley I don't have an >xp boot disc in my possesion is there any other way to do this with out the disc [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows xp?' Thursday, February 19, 2004 at 8:53 am Posted by Richard Verhelle (1 messages posted) I have two windows xp's on my computer. Home edition and Professional edition and both are in english my girl friend is french and I want to remove the two english editions and replace them with a french version of Wndows home edition . I went to the add and remove section and there is no windows xp . There are all kinds of files windows xp hotfix......but there are about 20 or 30 of them ???? what do I do Richard Verhelle rjverhelle@hotmail.com On Tuesday, December 18, 2001 at 6:50 pm, Anthony wrote: >You can't uninstall your windows if you are only running 1 operating system (windows). > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows xp?' Sunday, March 28, 2004 at 6:51 pm Posted by Bill Josephson (1 messages posted) I just did something similiar, and Christopher's post below (dated July 26,2002) helped alot. I did it manually by editing the boot.ini file and simply deleting the Windows folder of the version I no longer wanted. Here are more detailed instructions I just created for my own reference. 1.Make a backup copy and then edit the file boot.ini which is in the root directory of your boot-up partition, usually drive C. 2.Usually this file is hidden from view. In order to identify the boot.ini file go to Folder Options, View Tab and select "show hidden files and folders" AND deselect "Hide protected operating system files..." 3.Here is a sample boot.ini file: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition" /fastdetect It shows two operating systems. If you want to delete the Home Edition, simply delete that line AND make sure you change the default. The file should then look like this: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition" /fastdetect Again, note that the default line points to XP Professional Edition (and has changed from the previous default). 4.If you are booted on the Windows you want to keep; you can now delete the Windows folder of the OS you want to remove. And you are done. 5. If you accidentally corrupt or delete the boot.ini file, you can recreate it by booting from a floppy and then restoring the boot.ini. On Thursday, February 19, 2004 at 8:53 am, Richard Verhelle wrote: >I have two windows xp's on my computer. Home edition and Professional edition and >both are in english my girl friend is french and I want to remove the two english >editions and replace them with a french version of Wndows home edition . I went >to the add and remove section and there is no windows xp . There are all kinds of >files windows xp hotfix......but there are about 20 or 30 of them ???? what do I >do >Richard Verhelle >rjverhelle@hotmail.com > > >On Tuesday, December 18, 2001 at 6:50 pm, Anthony wrote: >>You can't uninstall your windows if you are only running 1 operating system (windows). >> [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows xp?' Sunday, March 28, 2004 at 8:57 pm 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 > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows xp?' Wednesday, May 12, 2004 at 4:08 am Posted by mankeymonkey (1 messages posted) you have to format you hard drive with the windows instalation on. Find you Windows XP cd stick that in you cd drive and restart you pc. when it says press any key to boot from CD press a key. There should be some instructions on formating you hard drive and stuff in the part your looking at then. just follow the instructions on formatting and reinstalling windows. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows xp?' Tuesday, June 1, 2004 at 7:26 pm Posted by luguin (1 messages posted) Ok Bro, i'm gonna give you the best advice, go to best buy or Circuit City and get a new hard disc, seems to be a nightmare, the same happened with me and used any possible resource,even more i changed my hard disc with this fuc xp to a new machine and i couldn't if this look vague respose like other's before go and get a rest for a while On Friday, May 10, 2002 at 7:43 am, IT person wrote: > >I guess know one knows how to unintall XP. Fuc the upgrade portion of the discussion. >The OS does not recognize a floppy on start up so you cant use a 98 boot disk to >fdisk. Thats my dillema. Can someone tell me how to format the damn drive. Thats >it period finito! If not please do not reply with a vague response like al the others >Thank You > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Its a bit more complicated to uninstall XP non-up grade? Monday, June 7, 2004 at 10:43 am Posted by Johnathan (1 messages posted) It's easy, pop the Windows XP CD into your CD Drive when you are in Windows. Then, click Install Windows XP. When the option comes, choose CLEAN INSTALL from the drop-down list. The other option will be Upgrade. Do NOT choose Upgrade. Next, follow the instructions until your computer restarts. When it restarts, you will be in a DOS setup program for Windows XP. When the Select Partition screen comes up, DELETE THE PARTITION THAT YOUR OLD WINDOWS XP WAS ON!!!!!!!! Then continue to Install, and you should have XP back. Remember, all your data will be LOST! Only XP will be on the hard drive after this procedure is complete. Go to www.windowsreinstall.com for better instructions. On Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 8:03 am, Michael wrote: > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows xp?' Monday, July 26, 2004 at 1:20 pm 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! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: You really need the basics Monday, July 26, 2004 at 2:04 pm Posted by Kiwi (2228 messages posted) You DO NOT have a "C" drive as far as the Command Line is concerned. You have a "C:" and the colon IS REQUIRED. . Kiwi ** On Monday, July 26, 2004 at 1:20 pm, TedG wrote: >When booting from the floppy and typing 'sys c' I get the message 'Parameter format >not correct - c' > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows xp?' Saturday, January 15, 2005 at 4:16 am Posted by sivadas.m (1 messages posted) 'How do I uninstall Windows xp?' 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: how to backup my data? Wednesday, February 16, 2005 at 11:28 pm Posted by thailuong (1 messages posted) I used startup boot disk win98 to format my HDD, I also used my utility bootup disk as trying boot up to drive A. After that, my desktop can not boot up winXP and lost my partision D for checking on DOS d: drive invalid. Then, I repair winXP made up new boot up and desktop return back to winXP and lost my partision D: and my data. Please,tell me how can I back up my data. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% On Monday, September 2, 2002 at 6:17 pm, Roberta Gallant wrote: >Hello. My name is Roberta Gallant and I reside in Concord, New Hampshire. I am >an owner of a personal computer. Recently, I upgraded my at-home computer from Windows >98 to Windows XP Home Edition. > >Right now I have a problem. When I tried uninstalling and reinstalling Microsoft >Windows XP Home Edition Upgrade, my personal computer's monitor screen showed me >a "Setup cannot install Windows XP because the necessary registration information >is missing" error message. What are the other ways, if any, I can uninstall and >reinstall Windows XP Home Edition Upgrade on my computer now? Have you any idea >of how I can do just that? I need your help with this problem? > >Please email me back at lilacmay4@attbi.com. I anticipate hearing from you. Thank >you for your prompt attention and reply to my very important email message. > >Roberta Gallant >New Hampshire > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows xp?' Wednesday, March 23, 2005 at 9:24 am Posted by Bobby G Murphy Sr (1 messages posted) How do you uninstall windows XP [no upgrade] 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: how do i uninstall win xp Sunday, June 19, 2005 at 7:44 pm Posted by No Name (1 messages posted) You can go to Microsoft and download the startup files if you did not change the master boot record this will work like a startup disk http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=15491f07-99f7-4a2d-983d-81c2137ff464&displaylang=en On Tuesday, October 21, 2003 at 1:16 am, Dave wrote: >Excellent idea Todd and thanks for your response but unfortunatley I don't have an >xp boot disc in my possesion is there any other way to do this with out the disc [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows xp?' Saturday, August 20, 2005 at 11:29 am Posted by Mobius (1 messages posted) I've had problems trying to remove WinXP, but I've found a pretty easy solution. Check the maker of your hard drive. Most likely they will have a website with diagnostic tools that can be loaded onto a floppy disk in case of emergencies. Once you download the program, just place a disk in your floppy drive and doubleclick the executable and your floppy disk will be formatted and the files will be loaded. Put the disk in the drive of the computer you want rid of XP and reboot the system. The program will boot up and you should find a formatting utility included somewhere within. I know both Western Digital and Maxtor have these as I have downloaded them. Good luck and I hope this works for you. 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows xp?' Sunday, October 9, 2005 at 4:10 pm Posted by jen (1 messages posted) TO ALL PEOPLE THAT HAVE HAD PROBLEMS UNINSTALLING WINDOWS XP!!!! tried tested and sucess!! I HAVE SPENT MANY HOURS TRYING METHODS I.E FORMATING VIA DOS OR EVEN COMMAND PROMT AND ADD/REMOVE PROGRAM WHERE THE PRGRAM IS NOT LOCATED!!! STEP 1 JUST TRY INSTALLING A LICENSED CD OF WINDOWS XP AND IF THAT WORKS THEN YOU CAN PROBABLY USE 2 OPERATING SYSTEMS OR GET RID OF ONE I.E.PROFFESIONAL VERSION AFTERWARDS. THERES SO MUCH NONSENSE ABOUT NTFS AND FAT OR FAT2 SYSTEMS WHERE I CAN UNDERSTAND THESE JUST CONFUSE PEOPLE AND DON'T HELP WITH GETTING TO THAT ACTUAL POINT ON MICROSOFT WEBSITES. STEP 2 CHANGE YOUR SETTINGS TO BOOT FROM CD DRIVE. -PUT WINDOWS CD IN -WINDOWS WILL GIVE INSTRUCTIONS ON WHETHER YOU WANT TO PARTITION YOUR DRIVE PLUS AT THIS TIME YOU CAN ALSO FORMAT YOUR DRIVE AND ERASE PREVIOS OPERATING SYSTEMS ON YOUR COMPUTER!! JUST FOLLOW THE GUIDES AND YOUR PREFERRED VERSION OF WINDOWS XP WILL BEGIN INSTALLATION.TAKES ABOUT 30-40 MINUTES. ANY MORE INFO JUST POP ME A LINE!!! 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows xp?' Sunday, October 9, 2005 at 5:28 pm Posted by Melissa (603 messages posted) Why are you shouting? Carpe Chocolate! [Reply or follow-up to this message] Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows xp?' Sunday, October 9, 2005 at 7:08 pm Posted by tinu (1 messages posted) k first of all i installed upgrade first then installed new installation now i have 2 Operating Systems and i want to get rid of the upgrade but when i went to the control panel it didnt work and afterwards it didnt show up HOW DO I UNINSTALL XP 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] How do I uninstall Windows xp?' Friday, November 18, 2005 at 12:09 am Posted by amit (1 messages posted) in my pc i install windows 98 & then anfter i install windows XP in seaim drive so i want to uninstall the windows xp [Reply or follow-up to this message] You don't do that. It doesn't exist Friday, November 18, 2005 at 4:32 am Posted by Kiwi (2228 messages posted) First, your choice to add this to the end of such a long and old thread is a very, VERY poor idea. Second, ONLY if you chose an over the top upgrade of XP onto Win98 and saved the old OS files is this possible. In the Add/Remove programs functions of Control Panel, the Windows Setup tab should include the option to Reinstall the prior Windows. If it does not, then, same as all of the rest in the thread, you are SOL. There is no "Uninstall". . Kiwi ** On Friday, November 18, 2005 at 12:09 am, amit wrote: >in my pc i install windows 98 > >& then [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: how do i uninstall win xp Monday, March 6, 2006 at 6:25 am Posted by Liam (1 messages posted) I upgraded from windows 2000 pro. to windows xp pro. Is there anyway of removing windows xp from my computer now? [Reply or follow-up to this message] You need your own question Monday, March 6, 2006 at 7:11 am Posted by Kiwi (2228 messages posted) This is an old, overloaded thread. Create your own and include data about what you have done up to now, such as "Did you have XP save the Win2000 files?" . Kiwi ** On Monday, March 6, 2006 at 6:25 am, Liam wrote: >I upgraded from windows 2000 pro. to windows xp pro. >Is there anyway of removing windows xp from my computer now? > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: uninstalling win xp Wednesday, March 29, 2006 at 8:26 am Posted by Yasas (9 messages posted) How do you uninstall when there is no floppy drive in the lap top but only a CD-ROM ? thanks yasas [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows xp?' Thursday, July 24, 2008 at 4:37 am Posted by Bob Koomans (2 messages posted) Uninstall WIN-XP, I simply give the whole shebang the BOOT with an ACRONIS RESCUE DISC after I save all my files. It fixes a few other problems too, like an EVER-GROWING Windows program size. (Ever noticed how a new install grows from 3.8Gb to over 15Gb in only 3-4months?) - (allowing for 3Gig of programs and other files you put in on top of the OS) You then only have to re-install Windows and your programs. Once you have a good clean system, use Acronis Disc Image suite, and ghost a copy to a portable HDD. next time you can format the HDD with a rescue disc, and ghost the OS back into place. Better still, divide (partition) your HDD if you have space, and put another OS on the 2nd HDD partition (leave it UNALLOCATED SPACE) such as the Free UBUNTU, one of the easiest ones to use, a bit like Windows in ease of use. (www.ubuntu.com) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to uninstall reinstall windows XP if you have the CD Sunday, February 8, 2009 at 8:07 am Posted by Tony (1 messages posted) Christianity *is* about treating people right today: "Do to others as you would have them do to you." and "Love your neighbor as yourself." Please go to a church (I recommend Baptist or Methodist) and ask the pastor to explain Christianity to you. (Or, read the New Testament of the Bible.) I ask this not as an insult, but because I would like you to know the truth about Jesus. On Wednesday, December 17, 2003 at 10:28 pm, hondascott wrote: > >Now jesus saves computers from idiots. Will HIS wonders never ceast? Pray that humanity >survives religeon and realizes that you treat people right TODAY. not "tomorrow", >or the "next lifetime", this IS your shot. > [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