Xp uninstall

[Guest]

I installed windows xp home over windows 2000 and now i want xp to be
uninstalled because all of my files from 2000 didnt transfer over, but xp
isnt in the add or remove programs menu, how can i do this

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

You couldn't have installed XP Home over Win2000, that is not a supported
upgrade path. You either did a parallel installation, or wiped the system
and did a clean installation. The only way back is to format and clean
install - same thing would've happened had you upgraded with WinXP Pro
(which is supported), as NT systems do not support uninstalling the
upgrades, they are a one-way ticket.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Vanguardx]

I installed windows xp home over windows 2000 and now i want xp to be
uninstalled because all of my files from 2000 didnt transfer over,
but xp isnt in the add or remove programs menu, how can i do this

Boot using the Windows 2000 CD and use its setup program to reformat the
hard disk's partition that currently has Windows XP (so everything on
that partition gets wiped) and install a fresh copy of Windows 2000. If
your Windows 2000 was itself an upgrade then you will need whatever
equal or prior version of Windows upon which that upgrade was based
since the fresh install of Windows 2000 Upgrade will prompt for a
qualifying version of Windows.

The operating system is NOT an application or adjunct to it that can be
uninstalled; i.e., you cannot have the OS uninstall itself. If the OS
could completely uninstall itself, you would be left with an unusable
and unbootable system (because you have no OS), and that can be achieved
simply by deleting the partition or formatting it. Of course, your real
problem appears to be something about files getting "transferred" but
that's not what you asked for help with.

 

[Vanguardx]

Hi,

You couldn't have installed XP Home over Win2000, that is not a
supported upgrade path. You either did a parallel installation, or
wiped the system and did a clean installation. The only way back is
to format and clean install - same thing would've happened had you
upgraded with WinXP Pro (which is supported), as NT systems do not
support uninstalling the upgrades, they are a one-way ticket.

Quite true. Read
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/upgrading/matrix.mspx which
shows Windows XP Home Upgrade will not work if your prior version was
Windows 2000 Pro. Windows XP Home is the crippled version of Windows XP
Pro. Windows XP Home is the migrate path up from the "personal"
versions of Windows 98/ME. Windows 95, released in August 1995, was
probably not included because it got dropped 5 years later which would
have been a year before Windows XP got released in October 2001.

However, it is still possible to install Windows XP Home *over* Windows
2000 Pro *if* the copy of Windows XP Home was a full version (retail or
OEM) rather than an upgrade, or if Windows XP Home Upgrade was an
upgrade from Windows 98/ME and the user opted to reformat the partition
containing Windows 2000. "Over" doesn't tell us anything about whether
or not Windows XP Home was a full or upgrade version. If indeed Windows
XP Home, the full version, was installed "over" Windows 2000 Pro then it
was because the user did a parallel and separate install of Windows XP
Home into another directory or a different partition (so the old files
are over there), or they stepped on the old Windows 2000 Pro partition
by reformatting it (so all the files went bye-bye) and did a new install
of Windows XP Home.

We really don't know what the OP meant by installed "over". I suspect
that the OP wiped the partition by reformatting it and so they wiped all
their data files, too. It also sounds like the OP never created any
backups; otherwise, they would not have posted this question.

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