How to take xp back off

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Tracy

I need to know how to take XP Home back off computer and
restore Win. 98. Any help would be very much appreceted.


Thank you, Tracy
 
Hi, if you have upgarde windows xp from windows 98 and had kept the backup
files, you can go to add/remove programs and uninstall win xp.
If you did not do an upgarde or never save the backup, you need to create a
win98 startup disk from www.bootdisk.com
Boot using the floppy, fdisk to delete the partition, recreate the
partition, restart system
Boot using floppy again, format the drive
Insert win98 CD, boot from CD and install win98 again
 
| Hi, if you have upgarde windows xp from windows 98 and had kept the backup
| files, you can go to add/remove programs and uninstall win xp.
| If you did not do an upgarde or never save the backup, you need to create a
| win98 startup disk from www.bootdisk.com
| Boot using the floppy, fdisk to delete the partition, recreate the
| partition, restart system
| Boot using floppy again, format the drive
| Insert win98 CD, boot from CD and install win98 again

Perfect except for one thing: Win98 CDs aren't bootable!

Restart the system using a Win9x startup disk and start with CD-ROM support.
Once you've got the A:\> prompt, insert the Win98 install CD, change to the
designated CD-ROM drive letter, then input setup.exe [ENTER]

Larc



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Greetings --

If you performed an upgrade from Win98/Me, elected to backup the
old system files, and didn't convert the partition to NTFS, then all
he needs do is boot into Safe Mode and Start > Control Panel >
Add/Remove Programs. All of these conditions _must_ be met for the
uninstall option to be available.

Otherwise:

How to Manually Remove Win XP and Restore Win9x
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q314052


Bruce Chambers

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