Re: uninstall xp

The only thing that needs to be saved are the drivers, all personal stuff has
already been backed up.
I am now stuck in a lop, windows requires me to activate, and well my copy
is "borrowed" so it won't register.
I really think I am going to have to delete it from DOS, but I don't
remember the command to do it.
Any help would be great.

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

Are you trying to keep your personal files? To get to a working system
without reformatting? Or can you afford to reformat and start over?

As you've discovered, Windows XP isn't going to run on that hardware.
Unfortunately, I think you're hosed as far as retrieving your old system.
One way or another, you're going to have to start all over with Win98.
Question is, what needs to be saved, and how to save it?

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

"ilvpegasus" <ilvpegasus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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First off I am a she. My computer i s P2 and had 98 in it to begin with,
so
it is not a problem to put it back in. I tried booting from the disk but
I
was not given the option to format. I had to choose between repairing the
existing one or installing without repairing. I have just reinstalled it.
Now how do I uninstall it?

"Tim Slattery" wrote:

"Gordon" <gbplinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"ilvpegasus" <ilvpegasus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I need to uninstall XP. I am stuck on the register page. Can I use
the
windows cd to to it,

Yes, boot from the CD, format the drive and then abort the install.


Also, do I have to reinstall XP

No, you can install ANY operating system you like (other than MAC) -
it's
YOUR computer......

Yeah, but....

If you install Win98, for example, it very likely won't support your
peripherals as well as WinXP does. Some of them it might not support
at all. Also, if you have a dual-core CPU, I don't think Win98 has a
clue what that is, so it probably won't support both cores properly.
XP Pro can handle a dual-processor computer, Win98 can't.

Linux would do many of these things better than Win98. So no, you
don't have to reinstall WinXP, but you want to think hard about what
OS you do install.

--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(DTS)
Slattery_T@xxxxxxx
http://members.cox.net/slatteryt




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