Re: uninstalling windows xp professional

On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:44:00 -0800, Tired of Setbacks
<TiredofSetbacks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

this is what i am showing at present: C: Partition1 [New (Raw) ] 190772 MB
(190771 MB free). I don't know whether to use the FAT file system or the
NTFS file system


Almost certainly you should use NTFS. The only good reason for using
the older FAT32 is if you are dual booting to an operating system that
isn't NTFS-aware.




"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:32:01 -0800, Tired of Setbacks
<TiredofSetbacks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

i have tried everything to uninstall windows xp from another computer and
nothing works. i tried dos and i was unsuccessful. a copycat was installed
on this computer and i can't uninstall it. i want to put a genuine copy on
it and it seems nearly impossible.



Your message is very confusing, but as a general rule, you can't
uninstall an operating system. You have to reformat the drive and
install another operating system cleanly.

There's an exception to that, however. If you did an upgrade from
Windows 98 or Me, and took the option to save the previous operating
system and also did not convert your drive to NTFS, then you can find
an entry in Add/Remove Programs. Clicking on that will uninstall
Windows XP and revert to the previous operating system.

If there's no entry in Add/Remove Programs, then one or more of those
conditions wasn't met, and your only choice is to reformat and install
whatever operating system you want cleanly.

To install a new copy of Windows, boot from the Windows XP CD (change
the BIOS boot order if necessary to accomplish this) and follow the
prompts for a clean installation (delete the existing partition by
pressing "D" when prompted, then create a new one).

You can find detailed instructions here:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

or here
http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org/how_do_i_install_windows_xp.htm

or here http://windowsxp.mvps.org/XPClean.htm

or here http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/clean_install.htm

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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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