How to uninstall incomplete XP installation

Hi,

I have 2 XP Home installations in my computer, one completed
installation & one incomplete installation.

The XP copies were created with following steps:

1. Ran installation from installation floppies created by
WinXP_EN_HOM_BF.EXE downloaded from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

2. Continued installation with XP Home CD (Simplified Chinese version).
>From text mode output, files needed for installation copied to HD.

3. XP installation auto rebooted PC. But I found the GUI display
unreadable due to mismatched language versions of installation programs
ran in 1 & 2 (my mistake, forgot to checked if correct language version
program downloaded).

4. Downloaded the needed installation program from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...5-bd5afee126d8
(Simplified Chinese version).

5. Restarted installation from floppies based on program downloaded at
4.

6. Completed installation of Simplified Chinese version XP Home.

7. Rebooted PC and found 2 XP HOME entries listed in start menu, both
called XP HOME. Choosing the 2nd entry in the list led me to the
incomplete XP Home installation program.

How can I remove the incomplete XP image ? I tried following "How to
Uninstall Windows XP upgrade in Recovery Console" steps listed
http://www.windowsreinstall.com/arti...euninstall.htm
but found the procedure couldn't be executed because osuninst.exe
couldn't be executed.

Scroll down to #20 on this web page, I have two installations
of XP on the same partition:

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/xpfaq.html

Post back if you have any questions.

Good luck

Nepatsfan

emil_lam wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have 2 XP Home installations in my computer, one completed
> installation & one incomplete installation.
>
> The XP copies were created with following steps:
>
> 1. Ran installation from installation floppies created by
> WinXP_EN_HOM_BF.EXE downloaded from
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
>
> 2. Continued installation with XP Home CD (Simplified
> Chinese version).
>> From text mode output, files needed for installation copied
>> to HD.
>
> 3. XP installation auto rebooted PC. But I found the GUI
> display unreadable due to mismatched language versions of
> installation programs ran in 1 & 2 (my mistake, forgot to
> checked if correct language version program downloaded).
>
> 4. Downloaded the needed installation program from
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...5-bd5afee126d8
> (Simplified Chinese version).
>
> 5. Restarted installation from floppies based on program
> downloaded at 4.
>
> 6. Completed installation of Simplified Chinese version XP
> Home.
>
> 7. Rebooted PC and found 2 XP HOME entries listed in start
> menu, both called XP HOME. Choosing the 2nd entry in the
> list led me to the incomplete XP Home installation program.
>
> How can I remove the incomplete XP image ? I tried following
> "How to Uninstall Windows XP upgrade in Recovery Console"
> steps listed
> http://www.windowsreinstall.com/arti...euninstall.htm
> but found the procedure couldn't be executed because
> osuninst.exe couldn't be executed.

The easy way is: Start/Run/type "msconfig" [omitting the quote markers] and
click "OK"/when the System Configuration Utility opens, click the "BOOT.INI"
Tab/when that opens, click the "Check All Boot Paths" button/if any Boot
Path is flawed, the system will offer to remove it/let it.
Gene
"emil_lam" <Emil_Lam@mailcity.com> wrote in message
news:1133628143.553945.262640@g47g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
> Hi,
>
> I have 2 XP Home installations in my computer, one completed
> installation & one incomplete installation.
>
> The XP copies were created with following steps:
>
> 1. Ran installation from installation floppies created by
> WinXP_EN_HOM_BF.EXE downloaded from
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
>
> 2. Continued installation with XP Home CD (Simplified Chinese version).
>>From text mode output, files needed for installation copied to HD.
>
> 3. XP installation auto rebooted PC. But I found the GUI display
> unreadable due to mismatched language versions of installation programs
> ran in 1 & 2 (my mistake, forgot to checked if correct language version
> program downloaded).
>
> 4. Downloaded the needed installation program from
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...5-bd5afee126d8
> (Simplified Chinese version).
>
> 5. Restarted installation from floppies based on program downloaded at
> 4.
>
> 6. Completed installation of Simplified Chinese version XP Home.
>
> 7. Rebooted PC and found 2 XP HOME entries listed in start menu, both
> called XP HOME. Choosing the 2nd entry in the list led me to the
> incomplete XP Home installation program.
>
> How can I remove the incomplete XP image ? I tried following "How to
> Uninstall Windows XP upgrade in Recovery Console" steps listed
> http://www.windowsreinstall.com/arti...euninstall.htm
> but found the procedure couldn't be executed because osuninst.exe
> couldn't be executed.
>

Nepatsfan 寫道：

> Scroll down to #20 on this web page, I have two installations
> of XP on the same partition:
>
> http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/xpfaq.html
>
> Post back if you have any questions.
>
> Good luck
>
> Nepatsfan
>

Thanks!

emil_lam wrote:
> Nepatsfan 寫道：
>
>> Scroll down to #20 on this web page, I have two
>> installations of XP on the same partition:
>>
>> http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/xpfaq.html
>>
>> Post back if you have any questions.
>>
>> Good luck
>>
>> Nepatsfan
>>
>
> Thanks!

You're welcome.

Nepatsfan