How to uninstall windows xp professional and install windows xp home edition

Dear Reader,

I would appreciate if some one could advise me how to uninstall windows xp
professional and install windows xp home edition.
If I boot up with the home edition disc, it does not give me the option to
reformat. It wants to install in addition to windows xp professional. Any
help would be appreciated.

"A. LEVINE" <A1newspapersales@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Dear Reader,
>
> I would appreciate if some one could advise me how to uninstall windows xp
> professional and install windows xp home edition.
> If I boot up with the home edition disc, it does not give me the option to
> reformat. It wants to install in addition to windows xp professional. Any
> help would be appreciated.
>

The installation process gives you the option to partiton and/or
format the hard disk. Allowing the disk to be formatted is the
simplest way to remove WinXP Professional.

If you do not wish to format your disk then you can install
WinXP home first. When it's up and running, delete the Windows
XP Professional folder. It's probably c:\Windows.

(reposted from microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics)

Hello,

Note that the below will DELETE all data from your computer (All e-mails,
documents, programs, drivers)

1) Boot from the CD - hit any key when the message 'press any key to boot
from cd..' appears
2) Wait for Setup to finish loading
3) Hit Enter
4) Hit F8
5) Hit Esc to continue installing a fresh copy
6) Delete the XP partition in the list
7) Create a new partition in place of the previous XP partition
8) Select that partition and hit Enter to install XP there. Format it as
NTFS (Quick)

Again, note that the above steps will completely erase your previous
operating system.

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"A. LEVINE" <A1newspapersales@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Dear Reader,
>
> I would appreciate if some one could advise me how to uninstall windows xp
> professional and install windows xp home edition.
> If I boot up with the home edition disc, it does not give me the option to
> reformat. It wants to install in addition to windows xp professional. Any
> help would be appreciated.
>

"A. LEVINE" <A1newspapersales@comcast.net> wrote
> Dear Reader,
>
> I would appreciate if some one could advise me how to uninstall windows xp
> professional and install windows xp home edition.
> If I boot up with the home edition disc, it does not give me the option to
> reformat. It wants to install in addition to windows xp professional. Any
> help would be appreciated.

It has to be done as a clean install. Boot the XP CD, don't run it from
within windows. See this link:
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

--
Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

A. LEVINE wrote:

> I would appreciate if some one could advise me how to uninstall
> windows xp professional and install windows xp home edition.
> If I boot up with the home edition disc, it does not give me the
> option to reformat. It wants to install in addition to windows xp
> professional. Any help would be appreciated.


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