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Curt
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I am in a bit of a delemia. I haven't reformated since Last Christmas. So I decided that it was time. I was getting tired of all the clutter and all the unused programs. I have an HP Pavillion 6630.. It's pretty old. 2 years I think. Anyway, It's been upgraded in most ways. I am about to get a new PC so this one will just be a spare but I have a HUGE problem. Well many programs. First of all I accidently deleted the boot file under the root directory. I can still reboot/restart but it boots from C:/windows .... I have Windows XP Home UPGRADE ... The PC CAME with Windows 98. I never deleted the old win 98 files either. So, I back-up all my most important files on CD-RW's. Then I try to uninstall Windows XP, because after I uninstall XP I should have 98 then my reformat disk that came with the PC will work. Well ... After a Few minutes of waiting .... I get this :
That's all period. Uninstall stops. I cannot uninstall Windows XP! This is so flusrating. I got fed up so I just decided to "reinstall" windows XP ontop of Windows XP. Not a smart idea I know .. lol but then when I tried to do that "Installing cannot continue because Boot.ini is missing" or something like that. So I am just very flustrated. I have the upgrade edition of XP HOME so I HAVE to have a previous operating system. I just want to reformat my whole PC .. Boot up Win98 via CDROM Disk that came with the PC and reinstall Windows XP . but I CANT! I get this good for nothing BLANK ERROR.. Geez. This is horrible. I'll try one last thing and then I am clueless. I'll do a system restore back to a few months ago and then maybe the boot.ini will show up and then maybe just maybe I can uninstall XP. ANY IDEAS WHATSOEVER PEOPLE!?
Thanks
That's all period. Uninstall stops. I cannot uninstall Windows XP! This is so flusrating. I got fed up so I just decided to "reinstall" windows XP ontop of Windows XP. Not a smart idea I know .. lol but then when I tried to do that "Installing cannot continue because Boot.ini is missing" or something like that. So I am just very flustrated. I have the upgrade edition of XP HOME so I HAVE to have a previous operating system. I just want to reformat my whole PC .. Boot up Win98 via CDROM Disk that came with the PC and reinstall Windows XP . but I CANT! I get this good for nothing BLANK ERROR.. Geez. This is horrible. I'll try one last thing and then I am clueless. I'll do a system restore back to a few months ago and then maybe the boot.ini will show up and then maybe just maybe I can uninstall XP. ANY IDEAS WHATSOEVER PEOPLE!?
Thanks