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re: Upgrading Windows 2000 Professional to Windows XP Home
Tuesday, December 28, 2004 at 4:03 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by DEX
(11705 messages posted)
blebar
No big deal
You can do both but you don't need to if you just want to run XP home...
The easy way to upgrade to XP from win2k is
Boot with the XP cd have it format the drive and then install XP..
XP will ask for you what ver. you now have, use the win98se boot disk and tell XP
to look at the A: drive for it...
OR
You can download a win98se OEM ver.boot disk from bootdisk.com...and use it to show
XP you have it.
NOTE*** if you have a lar.HD download ME ver. boot disk it will see the the HD over
32 gig...and format it right..
With the boot disk you will need to FDISK the HD and remove ALL the partitions (
ALL OF THEM ) and then make a new one, when it reboots format the HD with this command
format C: /s
The /s will put the systems files on the HD..
Now you can reboot with the XP cd or the win98se boot disk and install win98se or
XP...
( If you want to put win98se on boot with the win98se boot disk and when you see
use CD ROM support select it then when you see the A: type your rom drive letter
X:
and then cd win98 you should see X:\win98 folder (x: is your cd rom lettter) and
type setup and win98 will install..
If you want to have a dual boot system ..
win98se or win2k and XP set the HD up when you run the FDISK command and setup 2
or more partitions..
One for ea. OS files..
Install win98se 1st (C: drive) then win2k(D: drive) and then XP..(E: drive) your
rom drive will have a drive letter also....Note***will will need to format ea.drive
letter b/4 you can use it...i.e. with format D: and format E: but you should use
format C: /s on the 1st drive letter...
The will have 3 OS systems on you machine the best of all worlds..
NOTE***if you think you may want to install Linux down the road make a partition
now so you can...with FDISK
I hope this is not to much info at one time for you..
Just take you time and it will take some ,just read ALL the popups b/4 you move on
...
Good Luck...
Happy New Year :>)
!!!
τΏτ DEX
On Tuesday, December 28, 2004 at 3:31 pm, blebar wrote:
>Hi, I have a bit of a problem. I need to upgrade my computer from Windows 2000 Professional
>to Windows XP Home. I own a Home upgrade license but apparently the only way you
>can get to XP from 2000 Pro is to buy the full version of XP Home or buy an upgrade
>license to XP Pro. I'd really just like to use the XP Home upgrade license that
I
>already have.
>
>I also own a full license of Windows 98. So I was wondering if it is possible to
>downgrade from Windows 2000 Pro to Windows 98 and then upgrade to XP Home from there?
>If it is, how would I go about it?
>
>Thanks for your response and your help.
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