Windows XP back to Windows ME

[Mike]

I had ME on my computer installed and last week bought at
a trade show a "not for sale" Windows XP cd. I had no
idea what it was! Microsoft helped me to register it and
informed me it had come with another computer and it has
been nothing but trouble since! I want to restore
WindowsME, but it won't allow it, my D drive (cd-rom) is
not working now and I am ready to get out the hammer!
All I want to do is get rid of XP and reinstall ME.
Restore doesn't go back far enough for that, too.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

You can't restore, and unless you were allowed to upgrade you can't
uninstall. See this article if the uninstall option does not exist in Add &
Remove programs (check the Control Panel):

How to Manually Remove Win XP and Restore Win9x [Q314052]
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314052

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[Alex Nichol]

I had ME on my computer installed and last week bought at
a trade show a "not for sale" Windows XP cd. I had no
idea what it was! Microsoft helped me to register it and
informed me it had come with another computer and it has
been nothing but trouble since! I want to restore
WindowsME, but it won't allow it, my D drive (cd-rom) is
not working now and I am ready to get out the hammer!
All I want to do is get rid of XP and reinstall ME.

Buyer Beware of such things!


Back up data files, which will get deleted from hard disk, and do a
clean install

Boot the ME startup floppy, and from that run
FDISK
Say Y to 'Large disk support?' then take the option to delete either DOS
Primary partition (C) or a Non-DOS partition which would be the NTFS
one if XP was installed to that.
MAke a new Dos Primary partition, to use all the space released, then
reboot. Make sure you take 'with CD support' and note the drive letter
allocated to it

FORMAT C:
\:
where X is the CD drive letter, with the ME CD in it
SETUP