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re: Question about 'What's the difference between Windows 2000 and Windows XP?' Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 8:48 pm Posted by DEX (11847 messages posted) Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life. -- Chinese proverb -- Why take the chance, get a new HD they are cheap now days and install XP on it and then slave your win2k OS as a 2nd HD. Once they are gone they are gone.. If you install XP in the NTFS you can get to your files and move them or used them from the 2nd HD. Great Free Software Click Here C. H. Forum Click Here On Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 6:23 pm, HAL wrote: >I have a question about windows xp. Can you load it onto a computer that came with >the disk for the program, but you've not used it until now (or seven years)? If >so will you lose any information or memory? I am annoyed that I can't load music >onto an MP3 player, so I want to take the advice of my computer:get windows xp, but >I definetly do not want to lose ANY info I have previously saved. Please help me. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'What's the difference between Windows 2000 and Windows XP?' Friday, June 8, 2007 at 10:48 am Posted by outofpocket (210 messages posted) You can load it onto your machine, but it's not a good idea to upgrade w2k->xp but rather do a fresh install. In the process of installing you will likely wipe your disk clean and lose your data. I suggest (as DEX suggests) to get another disk and use either as the xp drive or save your data to it anyway you are familiar with. If you don't have that much data you could use one of more flash drives - they come in 2 GB sizes or more these days and use it for back up and a way to get your data into a system that you have done a fresh install of xp to. BTW - what's the problem with loading files to an mp3 player using w2k? Good luck. Outofpocket [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'What's the difference between Windows 2000 and Windows XP?' Saturday, June 9, 2007 at 3:51 am Posted by Jacob6601 (2174 messages posted) You could also slave the new drive (or partition the old one) and create a dual-boot machine (xp and 2k). http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306559/en-us [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum