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How Do I Uninstall Windows Xp Completely Without Reformatting The Hard Drive?

I’ve bought a new hard drive which I want to install windows on. I want to use my old drive as my D drive, and want to get rid of windows, but I don’t want to format it. Is there an easy way to do this?

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 at 4:55 am and is filed under Computers. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

3 Responses to “How Do I Uninstall Windows Xp Completely Without Reformatting The Hard Drive?”

  1. Your best bet IS to format it. Formatting erases all data and sets the drive up to work with Windows files.
    OR
    Once the old drive is setup as a slave you can delete the Windows folder in Windows Explorer.

  2. Easy way is to disconnect the old drive and install and connect the new one. Install windows on the new drive. Once you know windows setup and driver install is good…then shut down re-connect the new drive.
    now if this is IDE drives then the new drive has to be set as master and the old drive as slave. The new drive connects to the end connector and old one on the middle closest to the end connector.
    Each drive has a small pin jumper that needs to be set, the drive itself has a small picture that shows how to set the jumpers.
    If it’s sata, just connect the new drive to sata port 0 and the old drive to sata port 1. You may have to go into your PC’s bios to active port 1. Refer to your motherboard/pc manual on how to navigate the bios.
    Once you get the old drive installed boot into windows which should then auto detect and install it.
    It should automatically be set to D or if you have a cdrom maybe E or F or something else.
    YOu can then go into the “D” drive and delete the windows and program files folders.
    However, it would be easier to copy the things you want from the old to the new drive then reformat the old drive from windows. Once that’s done you can copy your things back.

  3. you don’t. you can’t “uninstall” an operating system like you can a program…once it’s there, it’s there.