Re: Uninstalling WMCE 2005

You can't format the system drive from which you booted, you need to either
boot from a floppy or the XP CD (probably the easier way). Use your XP Pro
disk as a boot disk, just make sure the bios are set with the CD as the
first boot device. If you want to completely wipe out MCE, you can delete
and recreate the partition in the install of XP Pro. I don't think you
should install on top of MCE (don't know if it will even let you).

-- James
"Nothing is ever what it seems but everything is exactly what it is."
- Dr. B. Banzai

"Julian" <Julian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:95A90BC1-4136-4677-9CE6-5AAFF9217BB9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Please can someone tell me how to uninstall wmce 2005 and reinstall
> earlier
> version of Windows XP professional.
> Loading the win Pro disk in direct doesn't work as windows says that it is
> an earlier version operationg system
> Using mycomputer c: format c:\ doesn't work as it say other processes
> running
> Using Safe mode command prompt
> c:\windows\system32 osuninst.exe doesn't work because it says that WMCE
> 2005 is not yet registered (we don't want to register it on this computer
> but
> will register it later on another pc)
> Any ideas gratefully accepted
> Thanks
>


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