Hi Darryl, I have win me on one pc and xp pro on the other, the game plays on win me but not xp, so I would like 2 have both pc's on win me. I'm going to try what you suggest. I'll let you know how I get on. Thanks for the help, Doug. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darryl" <minoddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 10:36 AM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: How do I get rid of xp pro please ? > > I am under the assumption, if it is wrong you are going to make it a bit > clearer, that you are in a Win ME & WinXP network environment right now. > You are wanting to get rif od winXP because a game wont play for your son. > I will offer some advice at the end of this. > But if you go to the WinME machine right now, as it is the only one that > will make a WinME boot disk, do exactly that, make a WinME boot disk, walk > back to the Xp machine, set in the BIOS to boot from floppy, and do the > fdisk thing from the previous email. > As I said, I haven't found an OS yet that hasn't given me the option to > delete a particular partition of any sort. > If I was in your particular situation, I would install the game on the ME > machine that was there and leave the XP as it is as I have done it a few > times, because a game wont play on my XP machine and the other computer is a > 98 Machine. > > Darryl > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Doug" > Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: How do I get rid of xp pro please ? > > > > > > Many thanks for the quick response, and my apologies for not being > clearer. > > I've installed xp pro and now find that my son can't play red alert 1 on a > > network, so I'm going to put the network back to millenium. Doug. > To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/