Win XP Pro formating issues

[Al]

To all,

I was conducting a test run of WinXP Pro on my desktop
before installing it on my laptop. My laptop was going to
be the user. I was using the desktop to test out
features. It originally ran Win ME. When I was satisfied
with the test I performed I tried to format the desktop to
revert it back to ME so that I can use XP Pro on my
laptop. Unfortunately I had forgotten that once NTFS was
selected I cannot go back to FAT32.

My question is, can I Completely erase all data on the
hard drive and reinstall ME? I tried to format with my
system restore cd but it would not except it. I only get
the Abort, Retry, Fail errors.

It's driving me insane! Someone please help.

Sincerely,

Al

 

[Al]

Thank you very much! I will try it once I get home
tomorrow from work!

 

[Bruce Chambers]

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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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[Michael Stevens]

To all,

I was conducting a test run of WinXP Pro on my desktop
before installing it on my laptop. My laptop was going to
be the user. I was using the desktop to test out
features. It originally ran Win ME. When I was satisfied
with the test I performed I tried to format the desktop to
revert it back to ME so that I can use XP Pro on my
laptop. Unfortunately I had forgotten that once NTFS was
selected I cannot go back to FAT32.

My question is, can I Completely erase all data on the
hard drive and reinstall ME? I tried to format with my
system restore cd but it would not except it. I only get
the Abort, Retry, Fail errors.

It's driving me insane! Someone please help.

Sincerely,

Al

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