Unistalling Win XP Pro

[Lorrie]

Dear Tech Help,

I have recently installed Windows XP Professional
version 2002 in my laptop. I am not happy with the
performance of this product. I'm sure this is because of
outdated hardware. The system seems sluggish and I want
to uninstall windows XP pro now and go back to Windows
2000 or Windows 98. How can I do this. I seem to be
having trouble formatting my harddrive with XP Pro on
it. Can you help?


Thanks,

Lorrie

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[Vince]

Lorrie,

First of all it sounds like you are trying to reformat
and start from scratch. If so try to following. Are you
booting with a win98SE boot floppy and trying to do a
format c:? If so, try booting with that same floppy, at
the c: prompt type fdisk and delete the primary
partition. this will destroy all data on the HD though.
If you have any files to save hopefully you partitioned
the hard drive already.

For future reference, try partitioning the hard drive,
depending on the native disk space, by using 50/50 split
in the fdisk utility. This way if you ever have a
similar issue all of your files will be saved on D:
instead of c:.

ttfn

 

[Cher]

you might want to check this site out first

http://blackviper.com/WinXP/registry.htm

and see if some of his tweaks speed things up for you.

IMHO XP is a far better OS than 98 or 2000.
Well a little better than 2000 since that was its father.

 

[Michael Stevens]

Dear Tech Help,

I have recently installed Windows XP Professional
version 2002 in my laptop. I am not happy with the
performance of this product. I'm sure this is because of
outdated hardware. The system seems sluggish and I want
to uninstall windows XP pro now and go back to Windows
2000 or Windows 98. How can I do this. I seem to be
having trouble formatting my harddrive with XP Pro on
it. Can you help?


Thanks,

Lorrie

(e-mail address removed)

Depending on how your laptop was originally shipped would determine what you
should do. If it shipped with Windows 2000, you should restore back to the
original shipped state with the original CD restore media.
Returning to Win 2000 from XP will require a clean install of Win 2000, as
there is no uninstall path for the OS change.

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Michael Stevens MS-MVP XP
(e-mail address removed)
http://michaelstevenstech.com
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