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Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?'
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Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?'
Thursday, January 10, 2002 at 9:50 am
Posted by SRJ
(6 messages posted)
How to get back My Documents files lost while upgrading from Windows ME to XP Pro?
Windows XP professional while upgrading the Windows ME caused
system hanging/failure in the very last one minute of its upgrading
installation process. The message displayed: 1 minute left, deleting temp files.
Upon this message becoming eternal, I
had no choice but to unplug the electric power cord to reboot the computer;
the upgrading installation got stuck again at the same stage. As a result of
the repeated 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 were lost although backup.cab
596,074 kb and BOOT.CAB were created by the XP Pro installation in a
directory called Undo. 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.
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 vanished.
Using WinZip, I have extracted all contents from BACKUP.CAB in a seaparate
directory on my drive C. I also have BOOT.CAB, and Winzip shows me that it
contains several files including delfiles.txt size:1,459,798, autochk.exe,
moved.txt, and deldirs.txt. I had in My Documents folder many .doc and .xls
files; I do not find any of them. While reading said delfiles.txt, I find
the following entry which gives the name of Abooknew .doc file I am looking
for :
C:\Documents and Settings\srj\Recent\Abooknew.doc.lnk
It appears that all my files under My Documents were deleted by the XP pro
installer.
Currently I have put in a new 60 GB hard
disk with two partitions: C drive for freshly installed Windows ME and E drive for
freshly installed Windows XP pro under a dual boot system; the hard disk previously
called C drive (on which I tried to upgrade from ME to XP pro) has now become D drive.
Does anyone know how to get back all my .doc and .xls files from My Documents file
that might be hiding somewhere on my current D drive?
Thanks for your help.
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re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?'
Sunday, January 13, 2002 at 12:05 am
Posted by Tom S
(200 messages posted)
Go to MS product support website and search for article Q307153. It worked for me.
On Thursday, January 10, 2002 at 9:50 am, SRJ wrote:
>How to get back My Documents files lost while upgrading from Windows ME to XP Pro?
>Windows XP professional while upgrading the Windows ME caused
>system hanging/failure in the very last one minute of its upgrading
>installation process. The message displayed: 1 minute left, deleting temp files.
>Upon this message becoming eternal, I
>had no choice but to unplug the electric power cord to reboot the computer;
>the upgrading installation got stuck again at the same stage. As a result of
>the repeated 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 were lost although backup.cab
>596,074 kb and BOOT.CAB were created by the XP Pro installation in a
>directory called Undo. 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.
>
>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 vanished.
>
>Using WinZip, I have extracted all contents from BACKUP.CAB in a seaparate
>directory on my drive C. I also have BOOT.CAB, and Winzip shows me that it
>contains several files including delfiles.txt size:1,459,798, autochk.exe,
>moved.txt, and deldirs.txt. I had in My Documents folder many .doc and .xls
>files; I do not find any of them. While reading said delfiles.txt, I find
>the following entry which gives the name of Abooknew .doc file I am looking
>for :
>
>C:\Documents and Settings\srj\Recent\Abooknew.doc.lnk
>
>It appears that all my files under My Documents were deleted by the XP pro
>installer.
>
>Currently I have put in a new 60 GB hard
>disk with two partitions: C drive for freshly installed Windows ME and E drive for
>freshly installed Windows XP pro under a dual boot system; the hard disk previously
>called C drive (on which I tried to upgrade from ME to XP pro) has now become D
drive.
> Does anyone know how to get back all my .doc and .xls files from My Documents file
>that might be hiding somewhere on my current D drive?
>
>Thanks for your help.
>
>
>
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re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?'
Wednesday, December 21, 2005 at 1:00 am
Posted by chinnie
(12 messages posted)
It doesn't work for me. I already deleted those files and the computer keeps getting
stuck while removing temporary files. Everytime I try to reboot in safe mode, the
upgrading process begins over and over and the machine keeps rebooting. The document
says to try and reboot from a Windows Me start up disk but the system doesn't recognize
Win Me anymore. I'm so annoyed I just want to revert to Windows Me. How can I stop
the idiot upgrading process?? I've been trying for the past 5 hours.
On Sunday, January 13, 2002 at 12:05 am, Tom S wrote:
>Go to MS product support website and search for article Q307153. It worked for me.
>
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The start up disk you aren't using is a floppy
Wednesday, December 21, 2005 at 3:37 am
Posted by Kiwi
(2111 messages posted)
The PC recognizes whatever is on the floppy. If it's DOS, it recognizes that, if
Linux, that, etc. The distribution set for WinME came with a floppy for starting
the system, whether the CD had the boot files on it or not. Your hard drive is in
a between OS' state, and cannot use EITHER WinME or WinXP yet.
If you still have that floppy and tried to use it, the next question is whether or
not you reset the boot drive order that moves the floppy into position number one.
That is in the BIOS' "Setup", which the computer tells you about every time it boots
up (Push xxxx to enter Setup).
.
Kiwi
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On Wednesday, December 21, 2005 at 1:00 am, chinnie wrote:
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>It doesn't work for me.
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