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Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?'
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Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?'
Tuesday, December 25, 2001 at 2:19 pm
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.
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re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?'
Tuesday, December 25, 2001 at 4:34 pm
Posted by Steve
(1 messages posted)
Here is how to fix it,
1. Reformat your hard drive
2. Boot from the XP CD, or download the utility to create boot floppies.
3. Install XP.
MS products don't upgrade! You have to install to a clean HD each time!! Anything
else risks disaster!!! When will people learn???
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re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?'
Wednesday, December 26, 2001 at 2:22 am
Posted by Tom S
(200 messages posted)
Don't lose hope -- this may get your data back. (What better example can there be
of a reason to do a full data backup -- as Microsoft repeatedly advises -- before
upgrading????) Visit the Microsoft Product Support Services webpage at http://support.microsoft.com/
and do a search referring to their article #Q307153 and that might help you successfully
complete the XP installation and recover your data. I used their advice and it worked
just fine. Microsoft has excellent advice when you can just locate it...
On Tuesday, December 25, 2001 at 2:19 pm, Shiv wrote:
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>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.
>
>
>
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re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?'
Friday, January 3, 2003 at 5:15 pm
Posted by brandon
(1 messages posted)
I got a question how do you reformat a hard drive that already has windows xp professional
on it??
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re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?'
Sunday, November 2, 2003 at 11:34 pm
Posted by Katey
(1 messages posted)
I have had issues with this. Use the XP cd and pretend that you're installing it
again. There is an option when it asks do you want to proceed with setup (or something
like it) right at the beginning that you can use, which you can then proceed to format
c:
On Friday, January 3, 2003 at 5:15 pm, brandon wrote:
>I got a question how do you reformat a hard drive that already has windows xp professional
>on it??
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