Uninstall on XP64 to Install of XP Home

[Guest]

Folks,

I am in midst of building a new PC for my home office.

I mistakenly ordered and installed XP64.

The Uninstall routine makes it seem (Relatively) easy to remove XP64. When I
get to the "Select programs" for uninstall, all I get is a blank window. The
Vendor for the program was good enough to take the XP64 disc back. I do not
have the XP64 disc at this time.

I tried to load XP Home on top of XP64, but it will not load.

I need to:

1. Uninstall XP64
2. Install XP HOme

Any/all assistance is appreciated.

Thanks,

RogerS

 

[Ted Zieglar]

You'll need to do a clean install of XP Home.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I am in midst of building a new PC for my home office.

I mistakenly ordered and installed XP64.

The Uninstall routine makes it seem (Relatively) easy to remove XP64.
When I get to the "Select programs" for uninstall, all I get is a
blank window. The Vendor for the program was good enough to take the
XP64 disc back. I do not have the XP64 disc at this time.

I tried to load XP Home on top of XP64, but it will not load.

Right. That's a downgrade and downgrades aren't supported.

I need to:

1. Uninstall XP64
2. Install XP HOme

You don't actually uninstall XP64, you simply format the drive, and that
gets rid over everything on it. Just 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://windowsxp.mvps.org/XPClean.htm

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

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Folks,

I am in midst of building a new PC for my home office.

I mistakenly ordered and installed XP64.

The Uninstall routine makes it seem (Relatively) easy to remove XP64. When I
get to the "Select programs" for uninstall, all I get is a blank window. The
Vendor for the program was good enough to take the XP64 disc back. I do not
have the XP64 disc at this time.

I tried to load XP Home on top of XP64, but it will not load.

I need to:

1. Uninstall XP64
2. Install XP HOme

Any/all assistance is appreciated.

Thanks,

RogerS

The normal way to "uninstall" *any* operating system is to format
the hard drive and install a new OS of your choice.

Only if you performed an upgrade from Win98/Me, elected to backup
the old system files, and didn't convert the partition to NTFS, can
you then boot into Safe Mode and click Start > Control Panel

Add/Remove Programs. All of these conditions must be met for

WinXP's uninstall option to be available.

Further, the only way to change from WinXP Pro to WinXP Home is to
format the drive and start over. There is no supported downgrade path
or technique.

Simply boot from the WinXP Home installation CD. You'll be
offered the opportunity to delete, create, and format partitions as
part of the installation process. (You may need to re-arrange the
order of boot devices in the PC's BIOS to boot from the CD.)

HOW TO Install Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;316941

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

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



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[Guest]

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RogerS

The normal way to "uninstall" *any* operating system is to format
the hard drive and install a new OS of your choice.

Only if you performed an upgrade from Win98/Me, elected to backup
the old system files, and didn't convert the partition to NTFS, can
you then boot into Safe Mode and click Start > Control Panel
WinXP's uninstall option to be available.

Further, the only way to change from WinXP Pro to WinXP Home is to
format the drive and start over. There is no supported downgrade path
or technique.

Simply boot from the WinXP Home installation CD. You'll be
offered the opportunity to delete, create, and format partitions as
part of the installation process. (You may need to re-arrange the
order of boot devices in the PC's BIOS to boot from the CD.)

HOW TO Install Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;316941

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

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



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Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:



You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having
both at once. - RAH

Folks,

Minimal progress here.

I checked the boot order from the Bios: CD Rom, Floppy, Hard Drive,
Ethernet, in that order.

When I try to boot from the CD Drive: CD Drive starts up, screen update says
"Setup is checking your hardware configuration". CD drive stops, Harddrive
light goes out. Computer stops all activity. Screen is black.

BTW: Motherboard is Intel 945PVS, CPU is Dual Channel 3.0. Video card is
LeadtekPX6800 PCIe card. All of which work fine with XP64.

I tried the "Windows XP System Setup Disk", listed on the MVP Website.
Screen goes to PC DOS setup, and stalls while the Floppy is running.

Note: this PC is not connected to the Internet.

TIA,

Rogers

 

[Squire]

Try to disable Ethernet in your BIOS before rebooting.

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[Michael Stevens]

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Folks,

Minimal progress here.

I checked the boot order from the Bios: CD Rom, Floppy, Hard Drive,
Ethernet, in that order.

When I try to boot from the CD Drive: CD Drive starts up, screen
update says "Setup is checking your hardware configuration". CD drive
stops, Harddrive light goes out. Computer stops all activity. Screen
is black.

BTW: Motherboard is Intel 945PVS, CPU is Dual Channel 3.0. Video card
is LeadtekPX6800 PCIe card. All of which work fine with XP64.

I tried the "Windows XP System Setup Disk", listed on the MVP Website.
Screen goes to PC DOS setup, and stalls while the Floppy is running.

Note: this PC is not connected to the Internet.

TIA,

Rogers

What is the version level of XP Home and what kind of hard drive? SATA?
Remove all but your mouse, keyboard, video and cd drive; then run setup.
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[Shenan Stanley]

Minimal progress here.

I checked the boot order from the Bios: CD Rom, Floppy, Hard Drive,
Ethernet, in that order.

When I try to boot from the CD Drive: CD Drive starts up, screen
update says "Setup is checking your hardware configuration". CD
drive stops, Harddrive light goes out. Computer stops all activity.
Screen is black.

BTW: Motherboard is Intel 945PVS, CPU is Dual Channel 3.0. Video
card is LeadtekPX6800 PCIe card. All of which work fine with XP64.

I tried the "Windows XP System Setup Disk", listed on the MVP
Website. Screen goes to PC DOS setup, and stalls while the Floppy
is running.

Note: this PC is not connected to the Internet.

Is the Windows XP Home CD SP2, SP1 or no SP level?
You really want to try an SP2 level CD - it may help.
You can integrate SP2 and create a new CD fairly easily if you have another
machien (you obviously have that) a CD burner and access to the Internet or
a copy of the IT install file for SP2 already downloaded/available..

Also - you may need to use the F6 installation method and have any provided
drivers for your controller ready (SATA, SCSI, whatever.)