Unistalling Trial Version

[R K]

I need help unistalling a trial version of windows
xp/pro. Microsoft does not seem to think it is important
to give instructions on how to unistall the trial
version...options either buy the product or pay MS for
customer support. Anyway, I learned my lesson regarding
Microsofts tactics.

Now to my problem...I get to the login screen and when I
enter my password it returns the following message "The
evaluation period for this copy of Windows has ended.
Windows cannot start. To continue using Windows, please
purchase and install a retail copy of the product"..
Thats it...no way to uninstall...uummm. Any help would
be appriciated.

Thanks much

 

[Yves Leclerc]

Re-format and install the version you wish to use.

 

[Guest]

Thats all well and good but I lose all my data.

-----Original Message-----
Re-format and install the version you wish to use.




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[Steve Nielsen]

Nothing compares to having a good a backup.

A few options still...

You can get another drive in the machine, set as master and existing one
as slave, install XP on the new drive then copy your data from the old
drive to the new one.

You can take the expired OS drive out and slave it to another 2K or XP
machine and copy your data.

You could try an inplace upgrade of XP (I think you'll need a Retail
version of XP for this, not an OEM version) on the exisiting machine
that would *hopefully* retain all your data and apps (but lose SPs and
Hotfixes - you'd have to reinstall any of those you had). I'd do one of
the other two options first to have a backup of some sort.

Steve

 

[R K]

Thanks,

I was accually able to get to my desktop in safe mode. I
then was able to copy files to a shared network folder
and copy them to my main PC. Ha Ha...You thought you
have me Microsoft....kiss my.....btw...I love OpenOffice

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

The normal way to "uninstall" _any_, regardless of whether it's an
evaluation copy or not, operating system is to format the hard drive
and install a new OS of your choice.

Bruce Chambers
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[Guest]

I did it - get into safe mode and then go to the control panel>add or remove programs>windows xp>remove and you're done!