Deleting Windows ME

To my surprise I find that one of my home PCs, a hand-me-down Gateway 950
Anthem has 2 operating systems on it, Windows XP and Me. I found out by
accident when I hit the F1 key before Windows loaded. I have been using XP for
several months with no problems. However Windows Me seems fully functional so I
assume it's installed on another partition. Problem is I see no "Uninstall"
program for Me. I 'd like to get it off and free up HD space. What's the best
way to do this ? Thanks

LRESA500

ME is an operating system, not a program. The uninstall is to reformat
the partition. This can get tricky when you have XP residing in the
system as well.

I would keep the ME because it is there, and add a low cost second hard
drive the machine if more space is required.

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"LRESA500" <> wrote in message
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To my surprise I find that one of my home PCs, a hand-me-down Gateway
950
Anthem has 2 operating systems on it, Windows XP and Me. I found out by
accident when I hit the F1 key before Windows loaded. I have been using
XP for
several months with no problems. However Windows Me seems fully
functional so I
assume it's installed on another partition. Problem is I see no
"Uninstall"
program for Me. I 'd like to get it off and free up HD space. What's the
best
way to do this ? Thanks

If in fact WinME is installed on a separate partition, the only way to
delete the partition and make the entire drive one primary partition is to
use FDISK which will cause you to lose everything and have to reinstall
unless you want to buy a third party partitioning software such as
PowerQuest Partition Magic (I strongly reccomend this one). If you buy a
program like that, then you need to delete the other partition and merge the
unallocated free space into the WinXP partition.

~NHL

"The sky is a pretty high limit for some."
"Jerry G." <> wrote in message
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> ME is an operating system, not a program. The uninstall is to reformat
> the partition. This can get tricky when you have XP residing in the
> system as well.
>
> I would keep the ME because it is there, and add a low cost second hard
> drive the machine if more space is required.
>
> --
>
> Greetings,
>
> Jerry Greenberg GLG Technologies GLG
> ==============================================
> WebPage http://www.zoom-one.com
> Electronics http://www.zoom-one.com/electron.htm
> Instruments http://www.zoom-one.com/glgtech.htm
> ==============================================
> "LRESA500" <> wrote in message
> news:...
> To my surprise I find that one of my home PCs, a hand-me-down Gateway
> 950
> Anthem has 2 operating systems on it, Windows XP and Me. I found out by
> accident when I hit the F1 key before Windows loaded. I have been using
> XP for
> several months with no problems. However Windows Me seems fully
> functional so I
> assume it's installed on another partition. Problem is I see no
> "Uninstall"
> program for Me. I 'd like to get it off and free up HD space. What's the
> best
> way to do this ? Thanks
>
>

On 22 Jun 2004 05:00:40 GMT, (LRESA500) wrote:

>To my surprise I find that one of my home PCs, a hand-me-down Gateway 950
>Anthem has 2 operating systems on it, Windows XP and Me. I found out by
>accident when I hit the F1 key before Windows loaded. I have been using XP for
>several months with no problems. However Windows Me seems fully functional so I
>assume it's installed on another partition. Problem is I see no "Uninstall"
>program for Me. I 'd like to get it off and free up HD space. What's the best
>way to do this ? Thanks

In WinXP, use "Windows Explorer" to explore your HD(or partitions).
Check their properties by right click the drives and select
"Properties".

A pop-up dialog window will appear, check the "File System". If it says
FAT32 and one of the folder is called "Windows", most likely it is the
WinME installed into it.

If you want to format that WinME partition or drive, right click the say
drive and select "format".

** Beware that all data in that partition will be gone ***

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