Uninstalling XP without disc

[Kaisasozay]

Can i uninstall Windows XP home edition without any disc
at all? I was given a computer with XP already on it, but
it wasn't the original operating system, but i want to
take XP off altogether. Is there a way to do this?


Thanks.

K.S

 

[EGMcCann]

Easiest way is with the F-word... Format. Find someone with a Win98 boot
disk, as I recall FORMAT is on there (as well as FDisk.)

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If you have to ask if your copy of XP is 32 or 64 bit, it's 32.
Getting Messenger popups? Turn on your firewall!
Patch from Microsoft:
http://tinyurl.com/h84v
More info from MS:
www.microsoft.com/security/incident/blast.asp

(Stolen with pride from Gary Thorn... thanks!)

 

[purplehaz]

www.bootdisk.com

Easiest way is with the F-word... Format. Find someone with a Win98 boot
disk, as I recall FORMAT is on there (as well as FDisk.)

--
If you have to ask if your copy of XP is 32 or 64 bit, it's 32.
Getting Messenger popups? Turn on your firewall!
Patch from Microsoft:
http://tinyurl.com/h84v
More info from MS:
www.microsoft.com/security/incident/blast.asp

(Stolen with pride from Gary Thorn... thanks!)

 

[Larc]

| Can i uninstall Windows XP home edition without any disc
| at all? I was given a computer with XP already on it, but
| it wasn't the original operating system, but i want to
| take XP off altogether. Is there a way to do this?

Boot with a Win9x startup disk. If the current copy of XP on your computer is
formatted FAT32, you can get rid of it by reformatting. But if it's NTFS,
you'll have to use FDISK to delete the system partition on the hard drive and
then create a new one.

If you plan to go back to any OS that doesn't support NTFS, you'll have to get
rid of all NTFS partitions. Otherwise, you won't be able to access them.

Larc



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[Alex Nichol]

Can i uninstall Windows XP home edition without any disc
at all? I was given a computer with XP already on it, but
it wasn't the original operating system, but i want to
take XP off altogether

You do it as part of installing whatever system you intend to use
instead - formatting the disk in the process