Re: Unistalling Trial Version

From: R K (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/04/04 

Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 18:10:12 -0800

Thanks,

I was accually able to get to my desktop in safe mode. I
then was able to copy files to a shared network folder
and copy them to my main PC. Ha Ha...You thought you
have me Microsoft....kiss my.....btw...I love OpenOffice
>-----Original Message-----
>Nothing compares to having a good a backup.
>
>A few options still...
>
>You can get another drive in the machine, set as master
and existing one
>as slave, install XP on the new drive then copy your
data from the old
>drive to the new one.
>
>You can take the expired OS drive out and slave it to
another 2K or XP
>machine and copy your data.
>
>You could try an inplace upgrade of XP (I think you'll
need a Retail
>version of XP for this, not an OEM version) on the
exisiting machine
>that would *hopefully* retain all your data and apps
(but lose SPs and
>Hotfixes - you'd have to reinstall any of those you
had). I'd do one of
>the other two options first to have a backup of some
sort.
>
>Steve
>
>anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com wrote:
>
>> Thats all well and good but I lose all my data.
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>Re-format and install the version you wish to use.
>>>
>>>"R K" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>>
>> message
>>
>>>news:3b0f01c40166$67955b70$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>>>
>>>>I need help unistalling a trial version of windows
>>>>xp/pro. Microsoft does not seem to think it is
>>
>> important
>>
>>>>to give instructions on how to unistall the trial
>>>>version...options either buy the product or pay MS for
>>>>customer support. Anyway, I learned my lesson
>>
>> regarding
>>
>>>>Microsofts tactics.
>>>>
>>>>Now to my problem...I get to the login screen and
when
>>
>> I
>>
>>>>enter my password it returns the following
message "The
>>>>evaluation period for this copy of Windows has ended.
>>>>Windows cannot start. To continue using Windows,
>>
>> please
>>
>>>>purchase and install a retail copy of the product"..
>>>>Thats it...no way to uninstall...uummm. Any help
would
>>>>be appriciated.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks much
>>>
>>>
>>>.
>>>
>
>.
>

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