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re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?' Saturday, October 22, 2005 at 2:01 pm Posted by texadc (94 messages posted) Sorry...but you are learning the hard way that "upgrades" often mean lots of trouble....Best thing to do is get retail....FULL version of WinXP.....and install from that CD selecting to delete existing partitions after which you need to create NEW C:\ partition, let XP format it and continue with fresh install. You will be way ahead and have lots less issues...By the way....a 5 gig partition is about half the size you should be using for your OS install, that is unless you plan to never install but a very few programs. Best of luck! On Saturday, October 22, 2005 at 1:47 pm, Tony wrote: >How do I uninstall Windows 98 after it has been upgraded to Windows XP? I know. I >know I can revert to Windows 98 so it must still be there somehere. I have a partitioned >hard drive that the OS is installed on with 5 gigs on it and I have less than a gig >left on it. Is there anyway to remove Windows 98 from that partitiion so that I will >have more space for my XP files ? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?' Saturday, October 22, 2005 at 2:26 pm Posted by Cam (4178 messages posted) XP INFO  XP CLEANUP How big is the total drive size? Do you have the '98 CD and an XP upgrade CD? If so you can clean install XP using the '98 CD as qualifying media. "You will need to have a qualifying Win98/Me/2000 CD to insert if you are using an upgrade version of XP to clean install. OEM restore disks will usually not fulfill the qualifying requirement. If the restore disk has a i386 folder, it will usually work." Click the Link above for the full version on how to clean install XP. Mac TIME IS DIVISIBLE BY THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE YOU HAVE TO SHARE IT WITH ('NEW' RELATIVITY) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?' Saturday, October 22, 2005 at 3:43 pm Posted by Tony (3 messages posted) Thanks for your replies, I found a way. The 5 gig partition was only used for my OS the rest of the drive for programs/apps and music. I found and deleted the original 98 OS files on my C drive using "clean up" and found and deleted the backed up 98 files (through XP) in the add/remove programs applet and got rid of that too. I managed to get 2.5 gigs of OS partition space back. Course I won't be able to revert back to 98 but who cares, all is working fine now. Thanks again. [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