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Win XP uninstall*HELP*

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by Pimpshoes, 2003/04/22.

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  1. 2003/04/22
    Pimpshoes

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    So i had win me and upgraded to xp. I now want to uninstall xp. How do i do this?
     
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    You can't really "uninstall" XP. You pretty much have to destroy it and install another OS.
     
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    well i dont even have an OS to reinstall. I have a recovery disk compaq gave me. I guess I need to go buy a new os. MS really ****** me off with there business tactics sometimes.
     
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  5. 2003/04/23
    PeteC

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    Hi Pimpshoes,

    No need to buy another OS :)

    Assuming your recovery disk came with the Compaq it will have ME on it. Suggest you run this, but be aware that it will FORMAT your drive and restore it to the state that it was in when the PC was delivered. It will remove any partitions that you may have made so there is no point in backing up your data to another partition.

    You will need to BACK UP your data to removable media - CD, floppy, etc and re-install all your programs and any drivers not originally installed on delivery. Suggest you export your address book and favourites as well, otherwise these will be lost too.

    Having reinstalled ME you will need to visit Windows Update to instal the latest updates.

    Nice motor :cool:
     
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    the easiest thing to do is:

    if you had an OS on first then you put windows XP on over the top of it, go to control panel, the add/remove programs and it should be in there and click on uninstall.

    thats what i did with mine on my laptop.
     
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    Hey, PeteC: You said:

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    You will need to BACK UP your data to removable media - CD, floppy, etc and re-install all your programs and any drivers not originally installed on delivery. Suggest you export your address book and favourites as well, otherwise these will be lost too.
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    Just for curiosity, I don't plan on doing this, at least not now, suppose you do the backup to another hard drive, say "D" and then physically remove it from the system. Then new install could not format it. (removable medium?),

    Then do a clean install of OS, either XP, 98SE, ME. (I have all disks) then plug "D" back in as "slave ". Assuming FAT32 on "C" & "D ", will the backups be accessable? How about if "C" is clean install XP Home NTFS and "D" is FAT32 What problems might arise?

    Suppose you had done a drive image on "D ", and then plugged it in as "C" Master, will th OS run? If so you then plugged in new OS drive changed to "D" Slave. Any chance you could dual boot this kind of a setup? Run both OS's separately?? My imagination is running wild, maybe a couple more hard drives???????
    :D
     
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  8. 2003/04/25
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    Hi Martin ....

    If a second HDD is installed the data could be transferred to that of course! - and there would be NO need to remove it from the PC. I rather assumed that Pimpshoes only had a single HDD like most folks out there.

    My understanding of NTFS vs FAT is this -

    If C & D are both FAT 32 - no probs regardless of OS

    If C is NTFS, ie XP it will read/save data from/to D FAT 32

    If OS is Win 9x on FAT 32 it will NOT read from an NTFS drive/partition. There's a recent thread on this.
    http://www.windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=16928 See Arie's article.

    For dual boot the method I use (triple boot Win XP/Win ME/Win98 on single HDD) is Partition Magic + Boot Magic.

    Note you have only 4 EIDE connections on a std m/b, so 2 HDD's + CDR + CD OK. If the board has RAID then up to 8 devices are possible, realistically a max of 7 HDD's with a CD/CDRW.

    I wonder if plugging in a HDD with a DRIVE IMAGE on it would work unless both that drive and the original are absolutely identical, but there's every chance that I'm wrong on that. Certainly plugging in a HDD with full OS as opposed to image is possible - done that!
     
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    Hi Pete: Wish you hadn't told me that, now I'm tempted to try it. Plug in a new "C" drive, format and install 98SE (which worked great for me, just changed to XP on dire warnings that support would be withdrawn shortly.) Then set up dual boot with XP on separate drive. Wonder if cross contamination will bolox up any of the drives? Maybe get one of those switches to power one drive or the other?
     
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    Hi Martin,

    Feel free to ignore my last post and sleep peacefully :D

    Seriously though no reason why you should not have dual boot to 98SE/XP, but why not on the same drive? It's only a matter of creating 3 partitions - XP - 98 - Data (accessible to both OS) and use the second drive for additional storage.

    I've no idea if you can have separate OS's on separate drives - there's bound to be a way, but it's not a road I've travelled down - no doubt someone wiser will jump in and comment. "Cross contamination" is not an issue.

    98SE was the most stable of the 9x family - I would not be over anxious re. M$ withdrawing support - plenty of that on the BBS!
    For me ME was a disaster - stayed on the m/c all of 6 days - seemed to have a mind of its own, but I have friends who have used it for years with no hassle.
     
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    "I've no idea if you can have separate OS's on separate drives "

    Your PC could care less if you have both OS's on the same drive or two different drives. If you want dual boot, install 98 on C: then boot from the XP install CD and pick where you want to put the OS. It will put a few essential boot files on C: and all the rest where you tell it.

    The operating systems will remain totally apart and no "cross contamination" issues will jump up to give you grief.
     
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    Thanks for the enlightenment, Newt
     
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    Thanks for the info Newt, the issue is that I already have XP on C, Was just curious if I pulled that drive and installed SE on separate drive, then switched drives making XP C again and then the SE as D slave, what would happen. I probably won't do this, just curious.
     
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    Putting an older OS on with a newer one already in place is possible but not without some software tools and a bit of work. Plenty of threads on here about specifics.

    But the way you are thinking of, while logical and simple, probably won't do anything you'd enjoy.
     
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    Newt: That makes sense to me, but, after 7 years of Windows, everything makes sense to me.
     
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