Uninstall WindowsXP Home edition

[Redvers J Burgess]

Has anyone ever uninstalled WindowsXP home edition from
an original installation?
I have scoured the Microsoft Knowledge Base but cannot
find any reference to uninstalling other than after
upgrading from a previous issue of Windows.
Obviously the system cannot uninstall itself. Or can it?

Reg Burgess

 

[Guest]

Has anyone ever uninstalled WindowsXP home edition from
an original installation?
I have scoured the Microsoft Knowledge Base but cannot
find any reference to uninstalling other than after
upgrading from a previous issue of Windows.
Obviously the system cannot uninstall itself. Or can it?

Reg Burgess

You don't "uninstall" a clean installation of XP, you simply format the hard
drive which will wipe it clean. If you wish to re-install XP, formatting can
be done from within the XP installation routine.

Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

 

[molsonexpert]

Has anyone ever uninstalled WindowsXP home edition from
an original installation?
I have scoured the Microsoft Knowledge Base but cannot
find any reference to uninstalling other than after
upgrading from a previous issue of Windows.
Obviously the system cannot uninstall itself. Or can it?

Reg Burgess

Format.

steve.

 

[Ken Blake]

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Has anyone ever uninstalled WindowsXP home edition from
an original installation?
I have scoured the Microsoft Knowledge Base but cannot
find any reference to uninstalling other than after
upgrading from a previous issue of Windows.
Obviously the system cannot uninstall itself. Or can it?

Reg Burgess

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.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

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

However, 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 you need 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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