Uninstalling XP

[richy22]

I brought a PC that i think had a "Good" ; ) copy of Xp installed.

I want to get rid of it and install bullet xp so i can fast boot it but i am getting the following message

Setup cannot uninstall Windows XP because the necessary registration information is missing

How the hell do i uninstall it!!!??!! I have read this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313859

and it makes no sense what so-ever to me!!

A pointer in the right direction would be cool!!

 

[RichMcc]

fdisk.. ahhh bring back the good old days LOL

 

[richy22]

come again??!!!

 

[Jay_clio]

dont think u cant, ul have to reformat the computer.

 

[richy22]

dont think u cant, ul have to reformat the computer.

U mean don't think u can!!!

 

[RichMcc]

yup its a reformat job, back in the old days you made a floppy with a DOS partition tool called fdisk which nuked your disk...

 

[richy22]

crap there's no other way?? Can you reformat without a floppy (no puns!!) as i dont have one!

 

[RichMcc]

yup a winxp CD will allow you to re-partition or re-format a drive

 

[ViolentJ]

How do you think you could uninstall something from itself? lol

If you haven't got access to a floppy or OS CD then use this:

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

 

[Near]

I thought you could download a Win98 floppy disk content? then put it to floppy and use it.

 

[fatrix_1]

have a look here mate, basically you need to fdisk it...i.e delete EVERYTHING then delete master boot record, set up a new partition etc etc

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/255867

if you need help give me a shout, i'll try and help (i worked in a pc repair shop a few years ago for work experience)

think the commands are...

get to command prompt (restart computer and randomly hit F8 or F7, if one dont work try the other and you wanna choose the option that has '..with command promtp' in it)

fdisk
delete primary partition
then i think you choose option one all the time
it formats
press escape to reboot
type fdisk/mbr
reboot
turn off
put in winxp cd
install

but dont quote me because i messed up the options you choose once and fucked a rich mans to spec pc right up :clown:

i think most of that is correct, if not its a step in the right direction

 

[DrR]

Need a windows 98 CD, best OS ever made.

 

[thecremeegg]

^agreed!

well it was until you wanted to do anything that involved the internet or multimedia, where it hadnt a clue :rasp:

 

[DrR]

lol and the random crashing, butt shhh, runs all my games faster than XP ever did.

 

[thecremeegg]

lol i cant even agree with that, my pc with 98 was pretty shocking, one look at a game and it would faint!

thinking about it, not sure WHY i agreed with you haha

 

[DrR]

thats cos the pc was s**t, not windows 98.

 

[richy22]

Pfftttt sorted now!!

Burnt BulletXP as an iso image on this PC. Set my bios to boot from cd, re-formated and installed BulletXP. That wasn't as painfull as i thought!!

 

[GordonD]

I would be very very very surprised if BulletXP was a legal product.

It is after all just a stripped down version of Windows XP. Which you have to buy.

 

[Mark One]

I would be very very very surprised if BulletXP was a legal product.

It is after all just a stripped down version of Windows XP. Which you have to buy.

Tiny XP by Experience is good - check torrents for it