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Upgrade Windows 2000 SP4 to XP
Name: devilsknight Date: April 21, 2005 at 08:24:40 Pacific OS: Windows 2000 CPU/Ram: Celeron 2.4, 256MB RAM
Comment:
I'm trying to upgrade my copy of Windows 2000 SP4 to Windows XP Home now it gives me the following error right off the bat.
setup cannot upgrade your current installation to XP. Current installation of windows is not a supported upgrade path.
Now i figure if i did a fresh installtion from startup wouldn't i have to erase everything ? Or can i retain what i have installed ?
What is it not working, are they too similar operating systems...what do i do /
Name: Curt R Date: April 21, 2005 at 08:54:10 Pacific
Reply:
2000 Pro to XP home is not a supported upgrade path. You can only upgrade 2000 Pro to XP Pro.
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Response Number 2
Name: ntengineer Date: April 21, 2005 at 12:40:10 Pacific
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You can do an installation by booting from the CD and picking to install into a different folder than your 2000 installation is in (probably WINNT). Then you'll have both OS's on your machine, and you can copy the important data from the one to the other. You can probably also use the file and settings transfer wizard in XP to transfer the data.
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Response Number 3
Name: Curt R Date: April 21, 2005 at 13:58:08 Pacific
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Or, you could just backup to a CD if you have a CD-RW. Or, you could back up to another drive.....install XP home and then copy the data into your new install. That's a lot less messy than having two OS's on your PC and then having to try to remove one of them later cause you never use it.
Either way, that doesn't change the fact that you can't upgrade 2000 Pro to XP home...so if it's an upgrade CD...well, you couldn't install XP at all without an upgradeable OS disk to start with.
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