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re: Upgrading Windows 2000 Professional to Windows XP Home
Tuesday, December 28, 2004 at 10:16 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by blebar
(6 messages posted)
Great. Sounds like it will work, except for one problem. I don't have a floppy drive
on the laptop I'm trying to install XP on. Is there any workaround for this? Thanks.
Ben
On Tuesday, December 28, 2004 at 4:03 pm, DEX wrote:
>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
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