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My computer was WINDOWSME I wanted the latest thing going and a friend loaded his XPprogram into my machine. I am tried of trying to load my toys in: meaning old scanner fax program and to find out they won't work because of this and that..
now my question is: how do I get back to my orginial OS when my uninstall program states I am missing files or imcomplete??? help anyone???
 
How to Uninstall Windows XP and Revert to a Previous Operating System
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303661

How to Use the Fdisk Tool and the Format Tool to Partition or Repartition a Hard
Disk
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;255867

1. Delete the Windows XP partition.
2. Create a new partition.
3. Format the new partition FAT32.
4. Install your desired Operating System.

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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| My computer was WINDOWSME I wanted the latest thing going and a friend loaded his XPprogram into my machine.
I am tried of trying to load my toys in: meaning old scanner fax program and to find out they won't work
because of this and that..
| now my question is: how do I get back to my orginial OS when my uninstall program states I am missing files
or imcomplete??? help anyone???
 
TAR81 said:
My computer was WINDOWSME I wanted the latest thing going and a
friend loaded his XPprogram into my machine. I am tried of trying to
load my toys in: meaning old scanner fax program and to find out they
won't work because of this and that.. now my question is: how do I
get back to my orginial OS when my uninstall program states I am
missing files or imcomplete??? help anyone???
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Unless your "friend" elected to upgrade and save the files necessary to
uninstall back to Me, you are going to have to format and reinstall Me
either fresh from the Me CD, or from your OEM restore media if it came with
such resources.
If uninstall XP is not listed as one of the options in Add?Remove, I am
afraid you have no choice to uninstall back to Me.

Click on or copy and paste the link below into your web browser address box.
Remove XP and install 98/Me
http://michaelstevenstech.com/xpfaq.html#how5
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If XP was installed over top of ME this can cause problems. A clean install over a clean hard drive will work. XP is much more stable than ME. If he installed XP and didn't have the working knowledge this can also cause problems. Hard Drives are very inexpensive. I suggest a new 40 gig(more if cost is not an issue) running at 7200 RPMS. Install XP and all will be good. I have been running XP PRO since it was released and can count on one hand how many times my sytem has frozen. This is just an opinion. The options are all yours. Happy computin

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Michael
Thank you for the info. I perhaps lost all the info that the system is saying
from the many times I used the restore feature in XP? I don't know I
just know things were better using WindowsMe. Guess my WindowsMe upgrade
disc won't overwrite XP? I have to try and delete it and hope Me comes back
any other helpful information would be appreciated
thank you TAR81 (Kathy
 
Greetings --

If you performed an upgrade from Win98/Me, elected to backup the
old system files, and didn't convert the partition to NTFS, then all
you need do is boot into Safe Mode and Start > Control Panel >
Add/Remove Programs. All of these conditions _must_ be met for the
uninstall option to be available.

Otherwise:

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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TAR81 said:
My computer was WINDOWSME I wanted the latest thing going and a
Click to expand...
friend loaded his XPprogram into my machine. I am tried of trying to
load my toys in: meaning old scanner fax program and to find out they
won't work because of this and that..
now my question is: how do I get back to my orginial OS when my
Click to expand...
uninstall program states I am missing files or imcomplete??? help
anyone???
 
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