Uninstalling XP

[Kronos]

I found after trying to uninstall the RC2 XP PRO version of Windows, that I couldn`t format my drive to reinstall win98SE! Originally XP claimed I could reinstall 98 after the expiration date...WRONG! I tried making a MS-DOS disk via the Disk Management program. It made one...BUT...the system files were never transfered making it useless for drive access! According to the folks at Microsoft...I was screwed! Soooo...I bought the cheap home XP version and did a clean install at the advance promt. A word of warning to the wise...if windowsXP isn`t shown in the add-remove programs section..at least for beta..yer gonna have to pay up!

I want to die like my Grandfather...in my sleep...not screaming in terror like his passengers.

 

[Tom_Smart]

you could have used another machine running ME to make a start disk, then use FDISK to remove the partion, set a new partion then format.

Although it has a lot of good ideas, beer doesn't know anything about computers!!!

 

[Kronos]

Unfortunately..windows XP "sees" any other OS formatted startup disk as a "nonsystem disk". :-(

I want to die like my Grandfather...in my sleep...not screaming in terror like his passengers.

 

[Tom_Smart]

windows XP won't see a thing. the startup disk will boot the machine into DOS with some tools ready to do the job of FDISKing away the NTFS partition, putting back a primary DOS partition, then restarting the system(STILL USING THE STARTUP FLOPPY) them format with FAT32 as usuall.
Did Mocrosoft really tell you that you were screwed or did they say they were going to screw you, as it really isn't a difficult problem to solve (as proved my my answewr cos i'm no MS Expert) and should have been very easy for microsoft to sort out.

Although it has a lot of good ideas, beer doesn't know anything about computers!!!

 

[Kronos]

Actually...they said I was "hosed". It`s moot now anyway. The XP Pro Corporate version Iam now using works just fine and no need to register.

I want to die like my Grandfather...in my sleep...not screaming in terror like his passengers.