Uninstalling Windows XP Home

[Richard Williams]

During installation I incorrectly chose the NTFS file
system instead of FAT32. All my previous documents are
now in Wordpad, graphics can't be displayed and files
created with Serif cannot be displayed at all.

I would like to uninstall Windows XP and start again but
the manual says I can't when I've changed file access
types.

How can I now uninstall Windows XP?

Any help would be gratefully accepted.

Many thanks.

 

[Edward]

You cannot uninstall after choosing NTFS

Nor if you did not upgrade from Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows 98
Second Edition, or Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Me).

Or if you upgraded from Windows XP Home Edition, Microsoft Windows 2000, or
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0. After any of these, you cannot uninstall Windows
XP.


Good luck,

Ed

 

[Tom Porterfield]

During installation I incorrectly chose the NTFS file
system instead of FAT32. All my previous documents are
now in Wordpad, graphics can't be displayed and files
created with Serif cannot be displayed at all.

I would like to uninstall Windows XP and start again but
the manual says I can't when I've changed file access
types.

How can I now uninstall Windows XP?

Any help would be gratefully accepted.

As the manual says, once you have converted the file system there is no
uninstall support available. The only way to uninstall is to format the
drive.

That being said, your problems are not related in any way to the choice of
file system. Your previous documents are in wordpad because you haven't
yet installed a word processing program. You'll need to install Microsoft
Word or other word processor to open your documents in something other than
wordpad.
--
Tom Porterfield
MS-MVP Smart Display
http://home.comcast.net/~tp.porterfield

Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup only.

 

[purplehaz]

I'm not sure why you think ntfs has to do with this, but you can't
"incorrectly" choose ntfs. There is no correct choice, its fat32 or ntfs.
Anything created on a fat32 drive will work fine on ntfs. The files dont
change, its just a different file system.
Now, you say your documents are in wordpad, did you create them in wordpad.
If you used MS word to create them then you need to install ms word on xp.
Windows does not include ms word, just wordpad and notepad.
How are graphics not displayed, what do you mean?
What happens when you try to view a document created in serif font?

 

[Plato]

During installation I incorrectly chose the NTFS file
system instead of FAT32. All my previous documents are
now in Wordpad, graphics can't be displayed and files
created with Serif cannot be displayed at all.

Your previous documents were all done in MS Word. Install MS Word of MS
Office to get
Word back. XP does NOT include MS Word with the OS.