I have a question how do i uninstall windows xp and go back to my previous operating system which is windows 2000 pls help.. thanks....How do I uninstall Windows?:

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Why...are you having problems that this forum might help you solve?


On Wednesday, December 3, 2003 at 10:40 am, kell wrote:
>I have a question how do i uninstall windows xp and go back to my previous operating
>system which is windows 2000 pls help.. thanks....How
>do I uninstall Windows?:

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The only way I know of is by popping in the xp cd and booting to it, then formatting 
the drive completely and reinstalling 2000.  However, there may be some way to upgrade 
from xp to 2000, but im not sure.






On Wednesday, December 3, 2003 at 10:51 am, MLS wrote:
>Why...are you having problems that this forum might help you solve?
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Format and start fresh. There is no downgrade path to 2000. What seems to be the problem? Or is it that you don't know yet because you didn't give XP a fair chance?


On Wednesday, December 3, 2003 at 11:10 am, Bean wrote:

>The only way I know of is by popping in the xp cd and booting to it, then formatting 
>the drive completely and reinstalling 2000.  However, there may be some way to upgrade 
>from xp to 2000, but im not sure.
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>

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i want to get rid of XP pro and go back to XP home.

this is because of complications i've had after the 'upgrade.'  my audio is stuttering 
and sometimes popping... and everything is just so... slow.  start up slowed down 
by like 2 minutes, and then programs are loading slower...   it's not any good.

i'm running a dell dimension 2400, with 384MB ram, pentium 4, and 290GB of disc space. 
 free space is round 220.







On Wednesday, December 3, 2003 at 12:50 pm, Crash Override wrote:

>Format and start fresh.  There is no downgrade path to 2000.  What seems to be the 

>problem?  Or is it that you don't know yet because you didn't give XP a fair chance? 

> 

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Hi; I'm having the same program I used to be able to capture video without frame 
loss. Now it seems that XP Pro is a complete PIG. Unfortunately  a reload might be 
in order. I bought another computer with another copy of XP Home just to get out 
of this predicament. Their support is not that great. I wind up fixing my own problems. 
But this performance issue has me stumped. Can anyone recommend a good tool to analyze 
the kernel operations.

Wayne







On Thursday, January 6, 2005 at 3:02 pm, Antone Hammers wrote:

>i want to get rid of XP pro and go back to XP home.

>

>this is because of complications i've had after the 'upgrade.'  my audio is stuttering 

>and sometimes popping... and everything is just so... slow.  start up slowed down 

>by like 2 minutes, and then programs are loading slower...   it's not any good.

>

>i'm running a dell dimension 2400, with 384MB ram, pentium 4, and 290GB of disc 
space. 

> free space is round 220.

>

>

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Open C:\boot.ini (where C: is the hard disk letter). under the text '[operating systems]' find the OS that you don't want and delete the entire line, save it and restart(just to check).

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looking at my C:\boot.ini , what should I erase? here is a copy of the 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 Professional" /fastdetect /noexecute=optin I used to have XP Pro from work but apparently it an illlegal copy . I would like to downgrade back to my XP home edition . Thank you guys for all your help


On Wednesday, June 15, 2005 at 8:56 am, Mahdi Islam wrote:
>Open C:\boot.ini (where C: is the hard disk letter). under the text '[operating systems]'
>find the OS that you don't want and delete the entire line, save it and restart(just
>to check).

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Ok, well to change the OS loader, so that it disappears your C:\boot.ini should resemble: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /noexecute=optin If you do a "new" installation with Windows XP Home just give me another copy of the C:\Boot.ini and I'll alter the sections that need to be. Hope all this helps!


On Sunday, July 2, 2006 at 5:18 am, Jake wrote:
>looking at my C:\boot.ini , what should I erase?
>
>here is a copy of the 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 Professional" /fastdetect
>/noexecute=optin
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>I used to have XP Pro from work but apparently it an illlegal copy . I would like
>to downgrade back to my XP home edition .
>
>Thank you guys for all your help
>
>
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Guys, I used to have 2 o/s on my pc and deleted one but the boot loader is showing 2 still upon boot up. How can I get rid of the option of o/s upon boot up. Is it the boot.ini file and if so, where can I locate this file please? John


On Sunday, July 2, 2006 at 5:30 am, Mahdi Islam wrote:
>Ok, well to change the OS loader, so that it disappears your C:\boot.ini should resemble:
>
>[boot loader]
>timeout=30
>default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional"
>/fastdetect /noexecute=optin
>
>If you do a "new" installation with Windows XP Home just give me another copy of
>the C:\Boot.ini and I'll alter the sections that need to be. Hope all this helps!
>
>

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"Open C:\boot.ini (where C: is the hard disk letter). under the text '[operating 
systems]' find the OS that you don't want and delete the entire line, save it and 
restart(just to check)."

Being fairly puter illiterate...I typed that in run then got the info in a notepad...is 
that where you delete it?  I want the partition and win xp pro off my computer and 
still have my original home with all of my programs and data.  Can you post STEP 
BY STEP instructions to uninstall pro, reformat drive and get rid of the dual boot? 
 Thanks. 







On Wednesday, February 7, 2007 at 1:30 pm, hanlonj wrote:

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>Guys,

>

>I used to have 2 o/s on my pc and deleted one but the boot loader is showing 2 still 

>upon boot up. How can I get rid of the option of o/s upon boot up. Is it the boot.ini 

>file and if so, where can I locate this file please?

>

>John

>

> 

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Firstly, yes that is where you delete the line of text. You may want to make a copy 
of the file and save it to your desktop. Deleting the text in C:\boot.ini makes it 
so that the computer does not give you the option to choose which OS to boot up from; 
it does not delete any files. Hence doing this will "get rid of the dual boot".

Reformatting the drive will remove all the data on the drive. Since you have mentioned 
that you want to keep programs and files, I think it would be best that you do not 
reformat the drive. Unless disk space is an issue this will probably be enough. If 
disk space is an issue, then after deleting the text from boot.ini look in the main 
C:\ (probably best to have hidden folders shown as well as having protected operating 
system files shown - When in the C:\ click Tools > Folder options > in the view tab). 
You may find the are two folders that start off with the text "Windows" there maybe, 
for example, a "Windows.0" folder. If there are you can delete the windows XP Pro 
folder. To find out which one this is, look inside the back-uped copy at the line 
of text that had "Windows XP Professional" in it, it will tell you which folder it 
relates. The example below should illustrate this:

(from microsoft.com)

[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="Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect 

Here, the folder "Windows" referes to the WinXP Pro and "WINNT" to Win2000 Pro hence 
if one wanted to get rid of WinXP Pro they can delete the "WINDOWS" folder as long 
as that is not the partition that they booted up from.

Since both XP's have the same directory for users ("C:\Documents and Settings" where 
C:\ refers to the disk drive that the files are on) all the files should be intact. 

The easiest way to reformat the harddrive, though you may need to backup the files 
(Programs CANNOT be backuped as such), is to use the Windows XP setup disc. To do 
this, boot up from the WinXP setup disc. (Use BIOS if needs be). Press "Enter" at 
the welcome screen, press "F8" to accept the EULA, Press "Esc" to bypass the repair 
option, "Press D" to delete partitions and then confim the deletion with whatever 
keys it asks for. Then press C to create a new partition, follow the steps and then 
you will be given a number of ways to format the drive, the best way is "Format the 
partition by using the NTFS file system (Quick)". This also provides a way to delete 
the partition.

Another way to delete the partition is to go to control panel > Performance and Maintenance 
> Administrative Tools > Computer Management, Find "Disk management" on the left 
handside and then click it. Find the partition you want to delete, right click and 
delete. follow the obvious steps to confim the deletion.

In summary,

To remove the dual boot option:
1. Open C:\Boot.ini in notepad and save a copy on the desktop (this is just as a 
backup)
2. Then open C:\Boot.ini (saving a file to the desktop makes it so that that file 
is open in notepad)
2. Find the line of text under the heading [operating systems] which contains the 
name of the Windows XP version that you want to remove from the boot.
3. Then save the file.

To remove the Windows XP Pro folder:
1. Open the backed up copy of Boot.ini from the desktop
2. Look at the line which contained the name of the OS that you do not want and look 
in C:\ drive for that folder.
3. Then delete this folder. This cannot be done if you have booted from the OS that 
you do not want.

To format the hard drive:
Before you do this, make sure you have installation discs for your programs and that 
you have backed up you documents.
1. Boot up from the WinXP installation disc (if you do not have one, you can download 
a copy of the internet; do not install this, though, as it is illegal) (you may need 
to make the CD-ROM drive the default boot option from the BIOS)
2. Press enter at the welcome screen.
3. Press F8 to accept the licence agreement
4. Press Esc to bypass the repair
5. use the arrow keys and d (and also the delete confirmation keys - normally L and 
Enter) to delete all the partitions.
6. Press C to create a new partition
7. Use the arrow keys to use the "Format the partition by using the NTFS file system 
(Quick)" option and press enter to confirm this.

To remove partitions:
1. Control panel > Performance and Maintenance > Administrative Tools > Computer 
Management, click on "Disk management" on the left handside. 
2. Find the partition you want to delete, right click and delete
3. Follow the delete confirmation steps.


Hope this helps, 
Mahdi Islam








On Saturday, November 24, 2007 at 8:29 pm, Alta wrote:

>"Open C:\boot.ini (where C: is the hard disk letter). under the text '[operating 

>systems]' find the OS that you don't want and delete the entire line, save it and 

>restart(just to check)."

>

>Being fairly puter illiterate...I typed that in run then got the info in a notepad...is 

>that where you delete it?  I want the partition and win xp pro off my computer and 

>still have my original home with all of my programs and data.  Can you post STEP 

>BY STEP instructions to uninstall pro, reformat drive and get rid of the dual boot? 

> Thanks. 

>

>

> 

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Would it be possible for you to do it for me with remote assistant?  I am afraid 
to do it by myself as I am 61 disabled and have short term memory loss.  I would 
appreciate any help and will pay a fee if applicable.  Thanks.

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