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re: Question about 'Uninstalling Windows' Saturday, December 21, 2002 at 5:56 pm Posted by Tom Swanson (5553 messages posted) Your best chance of a good installation is to fdisk and format both drives and start fresh. Installations over 98 or ME are troublesome (to be kind). Create a boot disk from your WIN98 if you don't have one. Back up all personal documents that you want or need to save. Boot from your boot disk. Fdisk & Format D: and C: Set your boot to boot from your CD before C: and boot from your XP Disc. Be SURE your have your old 98 Disc, XP disc and all the program discs that you need to reinstall. You can find many posts dealing with this problem. You may also get more input. Good luck and review http://www.blackviper.com for a lot of good things to do and NOT to do. On Saturday, December 21, 2002 at 2:36 pm, sarah wrote: >I have a question about Uninstalling >Windows: > >I have windows 98 on my c: drive. I was trying to install xp over 98 and it wouldn't >let me, so I installed xp on my 2nd hard drive (d:). Now i have ended up with 2 operating >systems and all I really want is Windows Xp. How can I uninstall xp from my d: drive >and then change my c: drive from 98 to xp? >The D: drive is set as a slave drive to C: [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Uninstalling Windows' Saturday, December 21, 2002 at 6:12 pm Posted by Tom Swanson (5553 messages posted) MISCUE: Set your boot to boot from your CD... should read Set your BIOS to boot from your CD... On Saturday, December 21, 2002 at 5:56 pm, Tom Swanson wrote: >Your best chance of a good installation is to fdisk and format both drives and start >fresh. Installations over 98 or ME are troublesome (to be kind). Create a boot disk >from your WIN98 if you don't have one. Back up all personal documents that you want >or need to save. >Boot from your boot disk. Fdisk & Format D: and C: >Set your boot to boot from your CD before C: and boot from your XP Disc. >Be SURE your have your old 98 Disc, XP disc and all the program discs that you need >to reinstall. You can find many posts dealing with this problem. You may also get >more input. Good luck and review http://www.blackviper.com for a lot of good things >to do and NOT to do. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Uninstalling Windows' Saturday, December 21, 2002 at 6:28 pm Posted by triplate (4621 messages posted) How bout if i set my Bios to Bias??? On Saturday, December 21, 2002 at 6:12 pm, Tom Swanson wrote: >MISCUE: >Set your boot to boot from your CD... >should read >Set your BIOS to boot from your CD... > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Uninstalling Windows' Saturday, December 21, 2002 at 7:21 pm Posted by Tom Swanson (5553 messages posted) Your music will sound better :+) Your puter won't ;-( On Saturday, December 21, 2002 at 6:28 pm, triplate wrote: >How bout if i set my Bios to Bias??? > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Uninstalling Windows' Saturday, December 21, 2002 at 7:37 pm Posted by triplate (4621 messages posted) lol...good one. On Saturday, December 21, 2002 at 7:21 pm, Tom Swanson wrote: >Your music will sound better :+) >Your puter won't ;-( > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Uninstalling Windows' Saturday, December 21, 2002 at 10:45 pm Posted by Gennadiy (123 messages posted) Sarah Why do u want to uninstall Win98 - believe me WinXp is not so universal, besides on D slave drive XP works as fast as on master. But if you anyway want your Win98 out - boot in your XP D drive and delete all on your C drive, exept Boot.ini, NTLDR, NTDEDECT.COM (one more - I don't remember its name if u have SCSI), then start new XP installation from your (D) XP. Marry X-mass On Saturday, December 21, 2002 at 2:36 pm, sarah wrote: >I have a question about Uninstalling >Windows: > >I have windows 98 on my c: drive. I was trying to install xp over 98 and it wouldn't >let me, so I installed xp on my 2nd hard drive (d:). Now i have ended up with 2 operating >systems and all I really want is Windows Xp. How can I uninstall xp from my d: drive >and then change my c: drive from 98 to xp? >The D: drive is set as a slave drive to C: [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Uninstalling Windows' Sunday, December 22, 2002 at 9:26 am Posted by sarah (2 messages posted) Thanks for the input. What consequences will I have if I keep both OS? Now I have the option to boot to either drive. If I boot to C; with Win 98 everything works fine etc. If I boot to D: drive with XP it works, but none of my programs show up even if they were installed to the D: drive originally. I wanted to switch to XP because I am having some instability in my network via cable modem and XP has a nice digital detect option. The bridges I use for my network work much better with XP. So, I am wondering if I should just leave the 2 systems or go to all the trouble to fdisk etc. On Saturday, December 21, 2002 at 10:45 pm, Gennadiy wrote: > Sarah Why do u want to uninstall Win98 - believe me >WinXp is not so universal, besides on D slave drive XP >works as fast as on master. But if you anyway want your Win98 out - >boot in your XP D drive and delete all on your C drive, >exept Boot.ini, NTLDR, NTDEDECT.COM (one more - >I don't remember its name if u have SCSI), then start >new XP installation from your (D) XP. >Marry X-mass > [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