Uninstalling an OS
 

So.. I have been testing Longhorn for awhile now. I started out with a leaked release, but later on I got into the testing group through a business partnering program with my company.

Anyway, Longhorn isn't agreeing with my home PC, and I think it's causing some conflicts. My question is, how the heck do you uninstall an OS from your computer? I've never done it without formatting...

did you partition your drive for dual-boot or is it the only OS on that particlar PC?

I think that you can erase a partition and add it to the rest of your drive, not sure though.

Sorry, I should've been more specific.

My hard drive is partitioned and I was dual booting the OS. The problem is that Longhorn is installed on my storage partition, which has entirely too much information and software to simply format.

I guess my question is: is it safe to just.. delete the files?

I think you'll have to ...

1- Get a DVD burner and copy all of your storage data, followed by a format

or

2- Delete only the OS-specific files (don't forget to reset the MBR)

I don't even know what the MBR is...

Damnit. mad:

Wouldn't you just totally reformat?

anyways, how is longhorn?

in Computer management you can fuck with dynamic disk... don't suggest it though. You also may want to stop by the bakery and pick up Partition Magic. That is much safer than the built in MS tool.

Burn it, by new PC that is usoer fast.

[quote="Cool Fool":27241]anyways, how is longhorn?[/quote:27241]

It's terrible right now. Not too big on new features, either.

Basically, if you've modded your XP (StyleXP, AstonShell, that sort of thing) then you have Longhorn.

Also, the thing is a resource WHORE. I have a P4 1.5ghz with 384MB of Samsung PC800 RDRAM and my computer couldn't keep up with it. Best I could tell is that the most recent build they released to testers has a memory leak in it.

Suffice it to say that Longhorn is only staying on the test PC in the office.

MBR = Master boot record


format /mbr <-- Dos command

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