Re: how to uninstall windows nt from computer?

From: Alex (AlX_at_a)
Date: 02/12/04 

Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 21:44:51 +0200

"Gary G. Little" <gary.g.little.nospam@seagate.com> wrote in message
news:KUNWb.21447$aZ7.13110@newssvr24.news.prodigy.com...
> And just how many OS's have you used?

Let's see,
dos3,4,5,6,dr-dos,w95,w98,w2k,xp,w2ks,w2003s,Mandrake,RH6,6.3,9..etc...

So, no; Unless you *want* go to a totally diffrent file system (like between
FAT16,32,NTFS,EXT), no, you don't have to fdisk/format.
Ex: i "deleted" a w2k, cleand everything, except what i wanted to keep, like
favorites, logs in Yahoo Messenger...etc..then installed XP, quite happyly
and succesfully
On a FAT16/32 you can even go from W2k+ back to a dos boot and viceversa,
without format

Afcorse, explaing how you can do it is a lot dificult then just telling the
pooy guy to f***/format

>
> Methinks thou speakest in a most circular manner: When one uninstalls the
> OS, if the OS gives you an UnInstall functionality, just exactly what is
> there to boot? You "deleted" it, remember, told it to pack up and leave.
> "IF" the OS gives you ability to delete itself, and really Bubba, I don't
> know of any OS that will willingly let you delete it and then provide some
> mythical environment to boot. Since you have uninstalled the OS, just
> exactly what do you think will provide that bootable mythology for which
you
> are looking?

Did you acctualy read my post?
It's a shame that somone from a HDD production company knows so little on
how to use them...

Did you ever heard of bootable CD-ROM disks?

OK, so let's suppose you have Windows 2K installed and want to remove it,
then install W-XP:

-Rmove you HDD from your system, insert it in another Windows machine
-Delete your windows (ussualy name "WINNT") folder
-In the "root folder" delete:
"Ntdetect.com"
"ntldr"
"Pagefile.sys"
-Rename "Document and Settings" to "Document and Settings.Old"
-Put the HDD back into your old system
-Power On, use the "del" (or whatever hot key you see durong the bios
start-up) to "Enter the BIOS"
-Coose the primary boot device as "CD-ROM"
-Insert your Windows XP
-Save & Exit
-boot....Windoes XP set-up loads
-Selet the old "C" partition, choose not to format it
-OS installs happyly...etc..etc..
-OS reboots
-Go back in BIOS, choose the primary HDD as the main boot device
-Save & Exit
-boot...Windows setup continues...
-etc..etc..
-OS installed

-Optionally copy from "Documents and Setting.old" in the acctually "Document
and Setting" things like favorites..
cookeys..etc..

How hard is that?

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> Gary G. Little
> Seagate Technologies, LLC
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> "Alex" <AlX@a> wrote in message
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> > ""Bryan S. Burgin [MSFT]"" <bburgin@online.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> > > Other than fdisk + format? What do you propose to replace it with?
> >
> > And why would you need to fdisk + format? Isn't the delete operation
good
> > enough?
> > Arn't any other ways to make the system bootable again?
> > Most OS-es will re-make the system bootable, when they are installed.
> >
> > >
> > > Bryan S. Burgin
> > > bburgin@microsoft.com
> > >
> > > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
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